- From: Afternoon <afternoon@uk2.net>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:55:16 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
> To my knowledge, there is no CSS approach to creating > something like this, but there may be workarounds to achieve this > output > (using tables + css). CSS does not really provide for related objects to be styled into this kind of presentation. It is just about possible to position two elements level with each other in a reasonable way using float properties, but the author is not given sufficiently fine control over the output, i.e. to get the right wrapping effect in situations of unbalanced content or to allow a table-style "tug of war" to take place between the two elements over the proportions of each. It is also possible to achieve this with absolute positioning. But if you do that you lose the ability to allow other objects to flow around the "combined element". Useless in situations like tab leader. A multipurpose, flexible way to arrange elements like this would be useful in many situations, not least providing tab leaders. Ben (q) Ben Godfrey? (a) Web Developer and Designer See http://aftnn.org/ for details
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