I am stuck in the 90's with my tables - help me!

Noxis · 18 Feb 2006 at 00:03

Ok we are all table haters

Show me what I should be using instead

(or at least point me in the right direction)

joemorris86 · 18 Feb 2006 at 00:40

xhtml and css

Diskbox · 18 Feb 2006 at 00:54

ok with that

i want someone to show me how to make a table like design using Xhtml and css, boy have i tried, and cant get anything that works as well as tbales in some instances. especially when `im tabulating queries from a database. in some cases tables are fine, nothing wrong with them, i dont use them for layout though of the hwole site, only tabulated data.

Dj_Jestar · 18 Feb 2006 at 01:53

Tables are fine for tabulated data, but for anything else CSS + XHTML is where the cool kids are at

Beansprout · 18 Feb 2006 at 02:15

Try www.w3schools.com for some basic tutorials, then post back here if you need any finer points nailing down

PAz · 18 Feb 2006 at 09:44

http://glish.com/css/

Deathwish · 18 Feb 2006 at 10:59

Be prepared to fine tune between IE and FF, or in some cases you might need a seperate css file for the parts that just aren't compatible.

nightwish · 18 Feb 2006 at 11:29

Just to reiterate - tables are fine in situations where you need a table - I once made a table showing all 256 basic colours - try doing that in CSS! Tables should *not* really be used for the layout of a page though. It is quite tricky to get the hang of, but often this is only because CSS is a far more powerful positioning tool than tables could ever be.

Pajeh · 18 Feb 2006 at 12:22

For some help with designs there is no place better than http://www.csszengarden.com/