CSS, tables and frames question

When using CSS, how do you create boxes in which to put text or gifs. Do you
still use tables and frames?
If not, what dfo you do?

"Adrian" <aa (AT) aa (DOT) aa> wrote:

When using CSS, how do you create boxes in which to put text or gifs.

By specifying properties, such as width and border, for elements.
ObHTML: we use normal HTML markup, such as <p> for a paragraph, <ul> for
a list, etc., resorting to <div> when no semantically adequate markup is
available in HTML.

Do you still use tables and frames?

We use tables for tabular data, as we always did.

Try reading a tutorial on CSS, and note that CSS is not HTML.
I just sent you by E-mail a list of recommended reading, since it might
be useful but is off-topic here. (If your From field was forged, it's
your loss.)

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Adrian wrote:

When using CSS, how do you create boxes in which to put text or gifs.

By picking the block level[1] element that best describes the content (i.e.
<p> for paragraphs, <address> for author contact details, etc) and styling
it.

Do you still use tables

For tabular (spreadsheet) data.

and frames?

Sometimes - but only in web applications under very rare circumstances,
never on the average website.

[1] Very sometimes using an inline level but styling it otherwise.

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I did buy some books (Elizabeth Castro's HTML for the www (also deals with
CSS),
and a CSS style sheet summary by A. Meyer. (Book is in Dutch. Don't know the
English
title.) Am I to understand that you make boxes using DIV? Apologies for the
elementary
questions.

Adrian.



"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela (AT) cs (DOT) tut.fi> wrote

"Adrian" <aa (AT) aa (DOT) aa> wrote:

When using CSS, how do you create boxes in which to put text or gifs.

By specifying properties, such as width and border, for elements.
ObHTML: we use normal HTML markup, such as <p> for a paragraph, <ul> for
a list, etc., resorting to <div> when no semantically adequate markup is
available in HTML.

Do you still use tables and frames?

We use tables for tabular data, as we always did.

Try reading a tutorial on CSS, and note that CSS is not HTML.
I just sent you by E-mail a list of recommended reading, since it might
be useful but is off-topic here. (If your From field was forged, it's
your loss.)

--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:47:06 +0200, Adrian wrote:

Am I to understand that you make boxes using DIV? Apologies for
the elementary questions.

Adrian.

HTML and XHTML try to separate semantics (meaning) from presentation.
There are already some block-level tags that carry some semantics. div is
just a block with no special meaning.

HTH,
La'ie Techie

"La?ie Techie" <laie (AT) win_remove_get_nospam_solutions (DOT) com> wrote

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:47:06 +0200, Adrian wrote:

Am I to understand that you make boxes using DIV? Apologies for
the elementary questions.

Adrian.

HTML and XHTML try to separate semantics (meaning) from presentation.
There are already some block-level tags that carry some semantics. div is
just a block with no special meaning.

HTH,
La'ie Techie

I have discovered how to do it. Thanks all.

Adrian.