Hi Gunlaug, thank you for your quick response. Sounds like I'm best off using a table for my layout as painful as that sounds after reading 3 books properly explaining how wrong doing so is...
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun <[email protected]> wrote: > Scott Mueller wrote: > > The difficult part is that I want these columns to NOT wrap as much as >> possible, spread across the width of the browser window and have equal >> amounts of whitespace between. >> > > I know there's a display: table declaration, but I understand no IE >> browsers pay attention to it... maybe there's an IE hack for this? >> > > IE8 has proper support for CSS table, and older IE versions can be > "tricked"... > <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/moa_11h.html> > > However, problems arise when one wants source-ordering, table behavior > and "old IE trickery" all at once in a self-adjusting layout. Neither > HTML table nor CSS table permits real source-ordering, so you'll > probably end up with a complex solution to a small problem. I don't > think it's worth it for anything but "proof of concept" cases. > > In real life I would forget source-ordering, and use a regular HTML > table for a case like yours, to achieve optimal fluidity without > premature wrapping, while avoiding problems with older IE versions' lack > of CSS table support. > > You also have to take into account that text can/will be resized, which > in itself will complicate things enough if your case is supposed to work > across browser-land and various end-user options. > > regards > Georg > -- > http://www.gunlaug.no > -- Scott Mueller http://www.appletree.com AppleTree - Solve the Puzzle ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
