Controlling positioning of relative <div>'s?

**Jerry Grant** · May 17th, 2002, 04:38 AM

What browser are you using?

Looks fine in IE6.0

**Jerry Grant** · May 17th, 2002, 04:43 AM

Ok,

Read your post again! You mean like three <td> tags in a <tr>!

Well, you could use the <span> tag in place of the inner <div>s

**JoshT** · May 17th, 2002, 10:58 AM

Code:

<div style="left: 125;width: 450;">

This CSS is wrong and should be ignored by user agents that conform to the CSS spec - there's no unit specific, do you mean pixels, inches, kilometers, etc?

Any way, look into the CSS float attribute (float:left;) and if it works make sure you specified the (clear:both;) on the block you want to "break" the float.

And tables won't be depreciated, just used for the intended purpose, presenting tabular data like a speadsheet, rather than layout. And CSS3 will have column capabilities for layout, hopefully.

**Cudabean** · May 17th, 2002, 11:06 AM

Jerry Grant said:

Read your post again! You mean like three <td> tags in a <tr>!

Well, you could use the <span> tag in place of the inner <div>s

Will a <span> allow an embedded <br>? I guess I'll give it a try!

JoshT said:

And tables won't be depreciated, just used for the intended purpose, presenting tabular data like a speadsheet, rather than layout. And CSS3 will have column capabilities for layout, hopefully.

The problem with the current table spec is that you don't seem to have control over your border. It's either 3-d or nothing.

Thanks

cudabean

**JoshT** · May 17th, 2002, 11:11 AM

Originally posted by Cudabean
The problem with the current table spec is that you don't seem to have control over your border. It's either 3-d or nothing.
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I don't follow you.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
			
<html lang="en">
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
	<title>Untitled</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen" title="Default">
	table {
		border: 20px inset;
	}

	th {
		border : 2px dashed Blue;
	}

	td {
		border: 5px solid Orange;
	}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<table>
<tr>
	<th>Header</th>
	<th>Header</th>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>Cell</td>
	<td>Another Cell</td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

**Cudabean** · May 17th, 2002, 11:56 AM

Uhhh....
Never-freakin'-mind.

Thanks JoshT, I'm going back to tables.

cudabean

WALDO · May 22nd, 2002, 12:22 PM

<DIV>'s get positioned one atop another because that's how they are supposed to be. Imagine div tags like <P> tags without the space at the top & bottom. A div tag inherently forces a line break.

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