Simply HTML Tables

spoonz · 14 Oct 2009 at 10:03

Chaps,

Trying to create a table in a html page but struggling with the resizing elements. ie catering for different resolutions.

Should the cells be locked dimensions, or based on percentages so can resize dynamically?

spoonz · 14 Oct 2009 at 10:14

Its for layout. So now experimenting with Layout Tables.

Its for a Mambo template, so will be inserting php later.

spoonz · 14 Oct 2009 at 19:42

Just reading Packt Publishing - Building Websites with Mambo.

Its telling me to create a "tabled" home page to create a template so I can then insert the "engine" php inserts once on the server and add in menus etc.

They do refer to CSS but TBH im a novice to CSS so dont really know what the powers of it are. Is just basic "styles" as I am using it for now and nothing more?

spoonz · 14 Oct 2009 at 20:42

Inquisitor said:
You should never use tables for layout purposes; that's what CSS is for. CSS allows you to specify exactly how an element should be displayed, e.g. its size, margin, padding, positioning, type face, colours, etc. You can create very rich layouts relatively easily with CSS, and with much, much less code than would be required in a table-based layout. Check out http://htmldog.com/ for some good tutorials.

Thanks, Ill have a read

spoonz · 14 Oct 2009 at 20:46

The book states:

<html><head>
<?php mosShowHead(); ?>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<table width="780" border="1">

<tr>

<td colspan="2" height="89" bgcolor="#F5C228"> </td>

<td width="178" height="120" rowspan="2" bgcolor="#FFCC33">
<?php mosLoadModules ( 'user4' ); ?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>

<td colspan="2" height="33" bgcolor="#FFCC33">
<?php mosPathWay(); ?>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>

<td width="197" height="233" bgcolor="#F5EE28" valign="top">
<?php mosLoadModules ( 'left' ); ?>
</td>

<td width="389" height="233" valign="top">
<?php mosMainBody(); ?>
</td>

<td width="178" height="233" bgcolor="#FFFF33" valign="top">
<?php mosLoadModules ( 'right' ); ?>
</td>
</tr>

<tr bgcolor="#FFCC33">

<td colspan="3" height="40">

So you are essentially they are saying create tables to insert php commands (ie mambo controls) into.

Will this work with a CSS based page?