Re: QuickForm and TableLess

Justin Patrin wrote:

I know all about CSS and not using tables for layout. The way you typed it it sounded like a package of some kind. I have tried to use CSS layouts myself but it's *always* a pain. I can never get it to do the right thing, especially in multiple browsers. Lately I have just given up and went back to tables as I'm spending an inordinate amount of time trying to hack my CSS to make my layouts work. With tables I can usually get a layout working in less than a quarter of the time. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of CSS and doing layouts correctly, but if it's taking me so much longer to do something so simple I just don't have the time to deal with it. I still use CSS formost of my styling, but doing all of my layout with CSS is pretty much beyond me.

I've found that doing general page layout (header, footer, sidebars, etc.) with CSS instead of tables is straight forward and makes my code much easier to work with. ("The CSS Anthology" from SitePoint is an excellent book on doing that. Highly recommended.) I agree, though, that using it for multi-column forms (hell, most forms) is still annoying and tables are the path of least resistance. Ideally, we'd be able to use the table-CSS attributes that let you style a great many things as tables even if it's not a table tag, but that is ignored by MS IE so for general usage it's still not available. (Curse you IE!) -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson