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4/12/2007 8:07 AM
 

I am working on my website - www.velablue.com and am trying to work out what approach I should be taking. I have a 3 menu structure. 2 Horizontal menus and 1 vertical menu for child pages.

I'd like to do away with tables totally.

Is a pure CSS skin possible and is it desirable ? Will all modules behave correctly?

What are the issues with using CSS and how do I combat them?

I am using either the "snapsis css navmenu" or "housemenu" for my menu.. Most likely the snapsis one as it is great to customise for my 3 menu structure.

 
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4/12/2007 8:50 AM
 

In my opinion you will never be able to do away with tables totally.  They are needed for tabular data, and most modules have tabular data. 

I may get some bumper stickers made up.

Having a table in your skin is not a sin. 

The thing that makes tables bad is overuse for layout causing you to have tables within tables withing tables.  This type of layout is very hard (comparatively) for the browser and will slow down the rendering on the client.  This is also why you will see pages that do not have embedded tables start to render right away.

 


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4/12/2007 9:08 AM
 

Yes, that is what I used to have.

1 Table for PageSkin and within that a table for content set at 770 wide and then within that tables for different sections.

What I have now is 1 table for the whole page and one table for content 770 wide and within that table I have rows.

Just wondering whether i can at least get rid of one more table..

 

 

 
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4/12/2007 10:48 AM
 

You could probably get rid of the outer table very easily.

One thing that will help is if you use colspan and rowspan in that one table.  A lot of designers will just create a new inner table when using colspan or rowspan would have worked.

 


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4/12/2007 11:09 AM
 

Thanks again John.

I use colspan to do all my dividing up, it works well, but I can no longer get my rightpane and leftpane to collapse totally when there is nothing in them.

Two further questions:

1. Could I use div instead of rows and columns. I've been playing around with that today and i can sort of get it to work for IE.. but not in Firefox.

2. with regards to Removing the outer table. How do I get the inner table to center without using align=center in the table definition?

 

thanks

 

 
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