Thomas Livingston wrote:
The whole basis to my point is that in our little virtual situation, it's too late. The client saw the design. the client wants the design he saw. If you could only do it with a table, you'd say no and/or walk.
Just or the record, / I / wouldn't walk; I'd do what I had to do. This decision, of course, is based on certain prerequisites:
1: The design is, in point of fact, / im-friggin-possible / to archive without tables (something I've yet to encounter and find highly unlikely).
2: I've confirmed this fact by having someone, more skilled than myself, take a stab at the layout.
I'd just use the table. I wish I didn't have too. I wouldn't _want to_, but in that exact situation, my superiors would not back me up in turning down the client/project because I was gonna have to use a table.
And you'd be correct in your decision. If the layout is not achievable without the use of tables, what choice do you have? Personally though, I try to make sure everything I design can be worked out using CSS. I don't paint myself into a corner, so to speak, unless the client leaves me with no alternative.
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