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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:33 pm
by swiftouch
I love a good passionate discussion.

I figured out how to "reign" in a div with the float: left markup.

So in effect making a 3 column layout is as easy as:

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<div style="float: left;">stuffl</div>
<div style="float: left;">stuffc</div>
<div style="float: left;">stuffr</div>
My co-worker showed me how it was done today....and dispelled some of my ignorance. But I still find css much more difficult because the real meaning behind what some of the markup does is ambiguous.

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:54 am
by JayBird
swiftouch wrote:My co-worker showed me how it was done today....and dispelled some of my ignorance. But I still find css much more difficult because the real meaning behind what some of the markup does is ambiguous.
Yes, but when you keep adding little bits of knowledge like this to your skillset, you will soon be a convert ;)

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:03 am
by superdezign
CSS is just like any other programming / scripting language. There is a learning curve, but once you do get it, it's really not that hard at all. I can make CSS do pretty much anything that I need it to, but Iactually took the time to make a bunch of random layouts and such and practice.

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:23 am
by ReverendDexter
swiftouch wrote:But I still find css much more difficult because the real meaning ... is ambiguous.
So's english, and look at how descriptive you can be with it ;)

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:26 am
by RobertGonzalez
Shhhh. He's learning boys, lets not disturb him. :D

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:21 am
by Jenk
ReverendDexter wrote:
swiftouch wrote:But I still find css much more difficult because the real meaning ... is ambiguous.
So's english, and look at how descriptive you can be with it ;)
That's *almost* sig worthy..

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:50 pm
by swiftouch
I give up. There's no convincing the masses that tables are better. If you can't beat'em, join'em.

No, really. I've turned to the CSS/DIV side.

I've been forcing myself to learn the DIV/CSS quirks and methods and in the end, while it's mega irritating because I could have gotten something done a hundred times faster with tables, I find the challenge intriguing and find myself not wanting to go back to tables.

CSS has been fun to learn and I have oh so much more to learn. (did i just say that?) I can't believe I'm saying it. I said I'd never turn.

Time to go into the back room cinch up my cilice and flog myself.

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:18 am
by The Phoenix
swiftouch wrote:No, really. I've turned to the CSS/DIV side.

...

Time to go into the back room cinch up my cilice and flog myself.
Huzzah!

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:13 am
by RobertGonzalez
swiftouch wrote:Time to go into the back room cinch up my cilice and flog myself.
I think a better penance would be to convert all your table based designs to CSS based ones. :twisted:

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 3:04 pm
by JayBird
We were only jking, we all use tables. They rule :)

On a serious note, well done, you tried it even though you were convinced you wouldn't like it!

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:17 pm
by d3ad1ysp0rk
This topic needs to be saved for future reference.. lol

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:28 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I know I am watching this one still...

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:22 pm
by ReverendDexter
I think it jumped the shark when he caved and went to the darC SSide.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:40 pm
by matthijs
Maybe we just witnessed the last remaining table-man switch?

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:59 pm
by RobertGonzalez
As they watched in amazement, his hatred for tables dissipated into the cold darkness that is the table side of the world...

:D