> Is this possbile to do? Not with CSS2 without use of tables, that I can think of... > If it's not doable with css, > then any argument on why it shouldn't be? Other than CSS being designed for flowing documents (not user interfaces, but _documents_) in which the need to achieve the sort of layout being described is almost nonexistent, no. In a box model designed for user interfaces (eg any widget toolkit) this would be trivial to accomplish. But CSS, as it stands, is simply the wrong tool for this job. Boris -- "Vast quantities of ethyl alcohol (CH3CH2OH) have been discovered near the center of our Galaxy; evidently our Galaxy has also discovered that the best place to store liquor is in the middle of the system!" -- Frank Shu, "The Physical Universe"Received on Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:23:49 GMT
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