[UPHPU] weird looping image in <td>

Orson Jones orson.uphpu at bookstore.usu.edu
Fri Jan 11 09:11:28 MST 2008


Jonathan Duncan wrote:
> Wade has a valid point.  If you want to get religious and technical, you
> should not be using a table unless you are have tabular data.  Tables
> are not for layout.  CSS is for layout.  Using the markup that Victor
> provided will help you get the document to validate better also.

Tables are meant for tabular data not visual layout, but it works well. CSS is meant for style not
visual layout, but does ok. The problem is we don't have anything that was actually meant for visual
layout, so we use whatever is available to do the job, even if it wasn't designed for it.

Orson

"Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing)
to Web documents." - http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/


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