RE: CSS versus tables

Hello,

Using CSS to layout pages can but a little difficult at first until you
understand how and what to use in your CSS. But after you have a better
understand of CSS and how to use it for layout the time it take to layout a
page it around the same as using tables. 

Here is an article that started me off which I found quite helpful at the
time. The only time when you may take longer doing it in CSS than in tables
in when you come against a different style of layout that is considerably
different to what you have been doing in this case you'll just need to sit
down and conceptualize, and 'play' until you have come up with an acceptable
solution.

http://www.glish.com/css/

Cheers,
Grant Perry
AccessEd

-----Original Message-----
From: Slaydon, Eugenia [mailto:ESlaydon@beacontec.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 11:44 AM
To: 'Charles McCathieNevile'; Scott Luebking
Cc: andrew.mcfarland@unite.net; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: RE: CSS versus tables


Just curious. If you use a layout software, how does all the junk code
behind the scenes affect readers/browsers? I code everything by hand because
I detest the code that most HTML generators create.

Eugenia

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles McCathieNevile [mailto:charles@w3.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 6:01 PM
To: Scott Luebking
Cc: andrew.mcfarland@unite.net; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: RE: CSS versus tables


Well, it wuld be worth trying to get some real results from a serious sample
of developers.

Anyway, it is true for almost any rectilinear result I have ever tried to
achieve that I find CSS is easier and faster to code than tables. (As I have
said, fewer and fewer people do these by hand anyway, they use a simple
piece
of layout software, so the question doesn't really seem so important)

Cheers

Charles

On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Scott Luebking wrote:

  Hi,

  Just wondering  -  is this true for most rectilinear layouts of
  cells or does it refer to certain types of layout, e.g. the common
  format of a main area bordered by smaller areas above, below, etc?
  I think for this common type of layout CSS is easier (ignoring
  the browser problems).  If the layout gets more complex and information
  needs to have certain related alignments to other information for visual
  appeal, tables can be pretty fast.

  Scott

Received on Tuesday, 1 January 2002 21:07:58 UTC