Re: FN-FORUM: My CSS ideas, not a flame argument.

date posted 18th February 2004 18:31

On 18 Feb 2004 17:07:45 -0000, John Wards [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

>
> To you CSS folk..table layout need folk not respond ;-) I like CSS and I
> like learning CSS so shh the lot of you ;)
>
> I have been playing about with CSS and I have been using float: left etc
> to get columns.
>
> Now I've looked at http://www.glish.com/css/7.asp and i don't see one
> float.
>
> Why I am using float I really don't know i must have picked it up from
> somewhere.
>
> Am I doing anything wrong, would things work better if i did my column
> layouts like the glish example.
>
> My site: http://www.octoberdevelopment.co.uk uses floats loads.
>
> Do i need to?


many ways to the same/similar end result.

here's a fairly long list of css layouts, sorted into method:

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssLayouts

and a couple of views on the pros and cons of absolute positioning vs
floats:

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=AbsoluteOrFloatLayout
http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/flow-pos.html

and for the best of both worlds, here's a source ordered 3 column layout
using a mix of both:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/ordered-floats.html

which is on a very informative site, worth looking at from the front page:
http://www.positioniseverything.net

hth