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Formating?

Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 10:22 am
by benjaminj88
Alright well I have a quick question. Which would be best? I'm coding my site, and I want a three column layout, with a banner and a footer above and below the three columns. Alright well, I don't want to have the three columns on all my pages, but none the less should i use a three column table with divs inside it, or just div the whole thing?
What are the pro's and cons of each if you know?


thanks,
me

Re: Formating?

Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 1:45 pm
by chaos
The dominant meme on the topic seems to be that you should never, ever use tables for layout. Since pure-CSS div-based layout, as far as I can tell, does not work worth a damn for a huge number of objectives that tables meet easily, I am kinda skeptical of this.

I would say, see if you can actually do it adequately with divs, since if you can then you'll be all Web-maven-propaganda compliant, and use tables when divs fail.

Re: Formating?

Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 3:04 pm
by Eran