- From: Timothy Luoma <elists@1stpc.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:50:13 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Madison M" <rllrgrrl@hotmail.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
> The w3c is moving toward using tables just for tabular data, and
> using CSS for layout, but they have a way to go yet to make it work
> properly.
Hasn't the w3c always wanted to avoid using tables for layout?
> Though I did an experiment with doing a layout that imitated
> frames but using only divs. It only works in NS6 though, as IE only
> supports top and left for defining div position, not bottom
> and right. that is, IE can only do fixed width div layouts.
> (as far as I have been able to test)
Thanks for the page.
It gave me an idea.... "Could <div>s give me one line that has left-,
center-, and right- aligned text?"
Something like this:
left center right
(Which is something that I can only do using Tables, as far as I know)
So I tried this (in Opera)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Strict//EN">
<html><head><title>absolute divs</title>
<style><!-- div { position:absolute } --></style></head>
<body>
<div align="left">left</div>
<div align="center">center</div>
<div align="right">right</div>
<br /><hr /><p>This is a test</p>
</body></html>
It fails totally in IE (I don't have Netscape installed, so I can't say
how it works there)
http://www.peak.org/~luomat/misc/divtest.htm
It'll be nice when we get to the point where we don't have to use
tables for layout, but it's a long way away, unfortunately.
TjL
Received on Thursday, 12 April 2001 13:26:11 UTC