Topic: Columns, columns! Ionic, Corinthian...! (Page 1 of 1)

"...turn any hovel into a palace! Columns, columns! Sir, don't TOUCH the merchandise!"

Anyway, after a little Mel Brooks to get the Monday started...

The second project my boss has me working on (shelving the previous one for now) includes a schedule they'd like to see in columns. Is there a way to do it in CSS? I'd rather not do it in tables, because that's not what tables are for, let alone getting flak for it *pointed look at DL-44 *

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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein

Columns are as simple as using 'float'. Of course it can get more complicated than that, then you might find yourself lost in a hacktastic world a la http://pmob.co.uk/.

Well, it would depend on the details of course, but something like a schedule is generally *precisely* what tables are intended for. Give us more details as to what the purpose of the columns will be - are we talking about a standard schedule grid?

And in this day and age, you *should* get flak for using tables for page layout

DL-44: Yes, I should, but I've been out of the web design loop for a couple years, so I'm a bit rusty.

I used float for the schedule atm, because my employer wants the site up ASAP. We're talking about a grid showing dates and times. Take a look. For privacy/copyright reasons this link might disappear once the site itself is live. Once that happens I'll post the real URL.

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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein

This could work as a table. It could also work as a list.

The problem with breaking it up into columns, but keeping the information flow horizontal is that you lose the continuity of the content. You are supposed to read left to right, but your mark-up is top to bottom. This is one argument for using a table (and a table wuold be semantically appropriate as well).

Just remember if you do use a table to make proper use of <th> tags.