Re: [OT] If you hate positioning with css raise your hand... actually some help:)

2006-01-03 Thread Steve Raeburn
Here's *one* way to achieve what you're after: [left] [right] link1 link2 Courtesy of Eric Meyer http://www.complexspiral.com/publications/containing-floats/ All that's different to your first example is the addition of an additional 'float' on the outer div. This causes it to expand

Re: [OT] If you hate positioning with css raise your hand... actually some help:)

2006-01-03 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 1/3/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would even go so far as to ask, aside from the obvious benefit of being > able to change the look and feel of a site by pointing to a new > stylesheet, what is the problem with table-based layouts? Is the easy > swapping of stylesheets th

Re: [OT] If you hate positioning with css raise your hand... actually some help:)

2006-01-03 Thread Rick Reumann
Dave Newton wrote the following on 1/3/2006 1:01 PM: I would just have a div with a table in it to avoid all those issues. Right that's what I typically do. I just keep hearing about how you should use divs for layouts, so every so often, I go back to wrestling div junk and get frustrated.

Re: [OT] If you hate positioning with css raise your hand... actually some help:)

2006-01-03 Thread Dave Newton
Rick Reumann wrote: What I just want as a test is a div with a border around it and then two divs inside that div with text = One set of text aligned in a div to the left, the other in a div text-aligned to the right. Then below the main div some text: I would just have a div with a table in

Re: [OT] If you hate positioning with css raise your hand... actually some help:)

2006-01-03 Thread Nick Heudecker
Have you tried the table, table-row and table-cell display properties? But if that works, I'd just go back to tables.

Re: [OT] If you hate positioning with css raise your hand... actually some help:)

2006-01-03 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
No, you are not alone :) I too have found it to be, shall we say, not as straight-forward as table-based layouts. And I am relatively conversant in CSS (no guru or anything, but I can usually make it to do what I want in the end). Of course, the benefits are pretty obvious (anyone as yet unconvi

[OT] If you hate positioning with css raise your hand... actually some help:)

2006-01-03 Thread Rick Reumann
I always end up with nothing but trouble trying to position divs with css that is a BREEZE to do with tables. css positioning is supposed to be the layout savior yet my experience with it always ends up with headaches - try something, see if it works, try something else, set if it works. Oh and