Re: Images and formatting of lists, keywords in <a>
Jordan Reiter (jreiter@mail.slc.edu)
Mon, 28 Jul 1997 16:52:46 -0500
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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 16:52:46 -0500
To: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil.kjernsmo@astro.uio.no>, www-html@w3.org
From: Jordan Reiter <jreiter@mail.slc.edu>
Subject: Re: Images and formatting of lists, keywords in <a>
At 9:08 AM -0500 07-28-1997, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
>And now, to the format. If you have a long list of say, names (they are
>normally not so long), it tends to take up a lot of space. It would
>often be desireable to brake them up in coloumns. Today, it is
>possible using tables to get the format
> 1. 2. 3.
> 4. 5. 6.
> 7. 8. 9.
>I feel it is a little awkward to do it this way, and I would like to
>have 1. 4. 7.
> 2. 5. 8.
> 3. 6. 9.
>as well.
This is a formatting problem on *your* end. You're probably doing
something along the lines of:
<TR>
<TD>1</TD>
<TD>2</TD>
<TD>3</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>4</TD>
<TD>5</TD>
<TD>6</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>7</TD>
<TD>8</TD>
<TD>9</TD>
</TR>
When you could just as easily use the following:
<TR>
<TD>1<BR>2<BR>3</TD>
<TD>4<BR>5<BR>6</TD>
<TD>7<BR>8<BR>9</TD>
</TR>
In addition, there are now new options in HTML 4.0 that allow the division
of a table into columns.
Finally, Netscape 3.0+ offers <MULTICOL>, which allows you to divide a
section of text into columns automatically.
But of course, all of these are visual rather than structural uses of HTML,
which is not encouraged. Currently, style sheets (with positioning) offer
a very comprehensive way to control the appearance of a page.
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