I think we have to consider the accessibility of the information being presented.
If someone using a screen reader wanted to order a (very expensive) banana they would probably want to be able to link the table headers so that they got the correct price/fruit (id and header attributes). lisa -----Original Message----- From: Tony Crockford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 4:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Table-style admin layouts At 07:48 on Tuesday, 05 Oct 2004, Peter Ottery wrote: >>> Is there a best-practice way to build an item >>> display with multiple columns, but without using tables? > >>> Name Price Quantity Edit Delete >>> Apple $5.00 25 [edit] [delete] >>> Pear $4.00 3 [edit] [delete] >>> Banana $12.00 5 [edit] [delete] > > > 1 vote for "thats table data - use a table" </lurk> A small concern here... The subject line and the presence of edit and delete columns suggest that this is in fact an interactive form, not a display of tabular data. shouldn't we be pointing to all the good stuff on form styling and layout? (eg http://www.aplus.co.yu/dots/109/) or are we saying that forms with tabular data (and edit/delete buttons) can be in tables? ;o) <lurk> -- listening to: background noise http://wiki.workalone.co.uk http://www.xebit.net ****************************************************** 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 ******************************************************
