Me hates tables. But I love CSS.
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You spend two hours customizing a table just to find out that it doesn't validate with the rest of your markup, then you spend 5 minutes banging our a CSS solution that validates XHTML on the first run and actually performs better than your table.
Me hates tables. But I love CSS.
Me hates tables. But I love CSS.
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I'd say you got lucky. I got lucky once.... only onceEverah wrote:You spend two hours customizing a table just to find out that it doesn't validate with the rest of your markup, then you spend 5 minutes banging our a CSS solution that validates XHTML on the first run and actually performs better than your table.
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Nice one.matthijs wrote:... when you realize after finishing the CSS the files ie6.css and ie7.css - included with your carefully written conditional comments - are still empty
--- you are franticly refreshing internet explorer browser. "there must be a bug! I'm missing it! There must be one, come on, concentrate! ---
Re: You knowing you're a CSS geek when...
Nothing wrong with tables, as long as you don't build a house with them.Everah wrote:Me hates tables. But I love CSS.
If only that were true!Matthijs wrote:--- you are franticly refreshing internet explorer browser. "there must be a bug! I'm missing it! There must be one, come on, concentrate! ---
yea, leave the house building to css...
Nice one, lol! Although I meant it a bit more figuratively.The Ninja Space Goat wrote:yea, leave the house building to css...
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the sad thing is the data I was using was tabular in nature, and the display of that data still worked better with CSS DIVs than with a table.GeertDD wrote:Nothing wrong with tables, as long as you don't build a house with them.Everah wrote:Me hates tables. But I love CSS.Use them for what they're made for: tabular data.
