Re: CSS display: table

Chris Beall a écrit ce qui suit, le 15/02/12 23:49 :
> … In view of the fact that you must go to a lot of work to add a set 
> of classes to do this, plus assign those classes carefully to each and 
> every <div> in the tree, why would you not instead just use the 
> appropriate <table>-family tags instead of <div>s?  I sense a gap in 
> my education; perhaps you can fill it.
>
This was my first reaction and I nearly posted the same question. Then I 
saw the linuxandfriends link given by Jean-Luc Meunier refers to 
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/everything_you_know_about_CSS_Is_wrong/ 
where there is some more “philosophy” about this. In a few words, you 
should use HTML tables to display tabular content, the kind of content 
you would place in a spreadsheet if it was not a webpage; you should use 
these CSS tabular possibilities if it is not typical tabular content, 
but mere tabular display (like a div id="navigation" column somewhere in 
your page).
> --- On *Tue, 2/14/12, Meunier, Jean-Luc 
> /<Jean-Luc.Meunier@xrce.xerox.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Meunier, Jean-Luc <Jean-Luc.Meunier@xrce.xerox.com>
>     Subject: CSS display: table
>     To: "www-amaya@w3.org" <www-amaya@w3.org>
>     Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 10:45 AM
>
>     … See for instance at
>     http://linuxandfriends.com/2009/04/04/how-to-style-div-elements-as-tables/
>