[Web4lib] CSS layout issue

Mike Taylor mike at indexdata.com
Wed Feb 14 09:01:05 EST 2007


Samuel Mcdonald writes:
 > See:
 > Multi-Column Layouts Climb Out of the Box
 > by Alan Pearce
 > http://www.alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlayouts
 > 
 > for some good advice, code and demos

John Loy writes:
 > http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/
 > http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/onetruelayout/
 > http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/css/faux-columns-for-liquid-layouts/
 > http://nickcowie.com/2005/elastic-faux-columns/

... and if all that just seems unncessarily complicated, then why not
just use a table?  Seriously: why not?  I know a lot of computer
scientists who think CSS layout is more elegant, but I've never met a
user who could tell the difference.

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