- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:23:47 -0500
- To: Gustav Svensson <gurra16@spray.se>
- cc: www-style@w3.org
> 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
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