Re: CSS & tables

PJ wrote:

I know of no better place to ask. This may not be strictly a PHP issue, but... I am busting my hump trying to format rather large input pages with CSS and trying to avoid tables; but it looks to me like I am wasting my time as positioning with CSS seems an impossibly tortuous exercise. I've managed to do some pages with CSS, but I feel like I am shooting myself in the foot or somewhere... Perhaps I am too demanding. I know that with tables, the formatting is ridiculously fast. Any thoughts, observations or recommendations?

If it is tabular data use tables. Otherwise use css. I have some rather complex forms done in CSS - for the most part, I use fieldset for for the different types of fields - and within a fieldset, just use a div with float: left; for individual stuff in the fieldset - with an occasional dummy div that is just clear: both; to force the next div down to the left.