I'm developing a 3-column website using a layout like this: <div id='left' style='left: 0; width: 150px; '> ... </div> <div id='middle' style='left: 150px; right: 200px' > ... </div> <div id='right' style='right: 0; width: 200px; '> ... </div> But, considering the default CSS 'position' property of <DIV>'s is...
Hi everyone, I need to put 2 divs side by side. But what's more important, I want this to display correctly in IE6/7. I have managed to succeed this with Firefox though. My code: #container{ padding:10px; } #left{ float:left; width:500px; } #right{ width: 300px; float:right; padding:7px; background-color:#F...
I am trying to create an ActiveRecord model called 'Search' without a table. I keep getting this error when I do @search = Search.new. sql::Error: Table 'searchdemo_development.tablelesses' doesn't exist: SELECT * FROM tablelesses I am using the idea from this comment: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/315850/rails-model-without-dat...
I am building a system to create a "fake video embed" with thumbnails and play buttons over them. The images are coming from a service at a standard size, so have no choice but to resize them in HTML. Another restriction is, the codeblock has to be self-contained (like an embed code) and not reliant on any external stylesheets. I'm overl...
The mailing list form I am creating has the following fields: first name, last name, street address, city, state, zip, email, and phone number. I created the form using list items and css NOT tables. I want the first name and last name labels together on the first line, the street address all by itself on the second line, the city, state...
Hi, i'm running into problems using DIV's to style a contentbox for my website. It basically looks like this: container +--------------------------+ |+--+------------------+--+| ||c1| r1 |c2|| |+--+------------------+--+| || | | || || | | || ||r4| content |r2|| || ...
Is there a CMS that can manage content on a site without having to implement a template? I've already designed a site with XHTML and CSS, so don't need a template, but do need active content management in static places, such as articles on the homepage and on a couple of other pages. Preferably open-source all the way, and tableless la...
Hi, I use HTML templates for my website from sites that sell templates as I'm not a designer and would like something ready, I use Rails for my development. I noticed that some sites design their templates as "Tableless" by using CSS and absolute posistioning of components in the page. I'm actually used to using tables in my pages. Wha...
I have a horizontal navigation with variable width 'buttons'. I would like the navigation to span the entire width of the containing div. I was able to accomplish this if I put the navigation in a table. You can check out this example. The table cells will resize according to how many there are and the width of the text inside them. Can...
Hi Maybe there is already a question about this subject, but I couldn't find it. My question is simple, Can I use only divs on a page layout? I got myself in trouble to create a div with corners for example. A_____B______C | | D E F | | G_____H______I take all letters as divs with some background,...
Should I teach CSS layout directly to new learners or should I first teach how to make layout with tables, then div+CSS? And what should I teach between HTML or XHTML? Both are same so should I start directly with XHTML 1.0 Strict? ...
Is it good to use float in table less design? What is the pros/cons of float in the context of table less cross browser compatible design? Is there any the best practices guidelines for cross browser compatible tableless design? ...
Im trying to eliminate two tables from my database. The tables are message_sort_options and per_page_options. These tables basically just have 5 records which are options a user can set as their preference in a preferences table. The preferences table has columns like sort_preferences and per_page_preference which both point to a record ...
I'm trying to create the primary navigation menu for a website that will have a variable amount of primary menu items. The navigation bar is horizontal and has a width of 738px. I would like to have the leftmost item 18px from the left and the rightmost item 18px from the right edge of the element, with the other menu items spread evenly...
Ok I just started a template for a website http://clickforclicks.com/design1/ I'm trying to make it tableless. Notice I have a red div along the side. I tried to get one on the otherside aswell that looked the same. But when I do it. It goes to a new line =[ How might I get this effect without using Javascript or Absolute positioning...
I'm tring to practice table-less design, and I trying to get the following: 4 images per row, and under each image is the name of the image. So my DOM: <div id="images"> <div class="imageblock"> <div class="image"><a href=""><img src=""/></a></div> <div class="meta">some filename</div> </div> <div ...
I have a section of an html page that I want to display in a table-like way. I keep hearing not to use <table> for layout. And I get the general reasoning. 1) mark up becomes bloated, so it takes longer to download, 2) a table is rendered all at once(so it might delay loading until all of it is read) 3) probably a myriad of other rea...
Can someone show me some html to layout the following not using tables? ______________________________________ |_______|_____________| | |_______|_____________|_______________| |_______|_____________| | |_______|_____________| | |_______|_____________|_______________| The third column needs to...
Possible Duplicate: Why not use tables for layout in HTML? These days, I am reading a lot that we should write tableless HTML. I believe that requires a lot of CSS knowledge. My questions are: What are the benefits of tableless design? What are the conditions when tables should be used? How to begin? ...
Using DataList, it's not possible to collect data into a <textarea></textarea> HTML tag. Because Visual Studio automaticly adds table and so td and shows data in these HTML tags. I want to show bunch of "added tags" in a passive-looking <textarea>. How can I do it? Is it possible to use data piece by piece WITHOUT any pre-constructed HT...