Hi Ryan, This isn't a dumb question, and is one that people often get confused about when moving towards web standards.
While the correct way of presenting data like this in tables, it's more important to do it correctly. That means using the right (symantically correct) tags. Anyway, in a nut shell, make sure this type of information is presented in a table and use the <th> element for all cells that should be read as headings. If you don't like the bold centred look you can re-style it with css. Following that, learn how to use the 'summary', 'header' and 'id' attributes - They're essential to providing equal access to all users to the data in your tables. In this situation (tablular data) <th> is actually more appropriate than h1 - h6 as it provides a better reference/relevance to the data contained in the table. There are other elements such as caption, thead, tbody. But at least, make sure you've mastered the above. There have been some good presentations by Mark Stanton on this topic recently, one at web essentials and the other at the last WSG meeting (see you should have been there!). hope that helps, lisa -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Sabir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 4:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] Table-style admin layouts Hi all, Is there a best-practice way to build an item display with multiple columns, but without using tables? What I want to do is build something like this: Name Price Quantity Edit Delete Apple $5.00 25 [edit] [delete] Pear $4.00 3 [edit] [delete] Banana $12.00 5 [edit] [delete] But without cluttering the HTML with table layout data... Or is this a case where its better to bite the bullet and just do it in a table...? I'm new here to please be gentle if this is a dumb question :) thanks, bye! ----------------------- Ryan Sabir Newgency Pty Ltd 2a Broughton St Paddington 2021 Sydney, Australia Ph (02) 9331 2133 Fax (02) 9331 5199 Mobile: 0411 512 454 http://www.newgency.com/index.cfm?referer=rysig ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
