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Dan on Equal Height Columns using CSS

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:49:11 PDT

The argument against using tables is really simple, and has already been mentioned.

Using tables for layout produces non-semantic markup.

HTML describes your content, and so should be as correct and as rich as possible.

In theory, you should first mark up your content correctly, according to your content structure, etc, before you begin to consider implementing the positioning, layout, colours, font sizes, etc. with CSS.

Sure, you'll have to go back into your HTML or template and wrap a few things in the odd 'div', but by-and-large, you should be able to reach your desired outcome without resorting to using tables for layout.

spunky on Methods for Containing Floats

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:04:09 PDT

For years I wondered how to fix this. The extra DIV is the answer (I don't care if it's an extra tag, being *that* picky can't be good for your health).

Thanks a lot!

wookie on Equal Height Columns using CSS

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:52:16 PDT

This work perfectly thx loads

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Mike on PHP Tip: Extract, Variable Variables and Templating

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:57:23 PDT

Thanks for all the different interesting articles. We like to visit your website and the diverse postings.

Daniel on PHP Tip: Sending the output of require/include to a variable

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:50:21 PDT

This (the 'GetRequire' function) was the key for me to getting a global site header into CubeCart using XTemplates. Struggled with this for hours before I found this solution, thanks! file_get_contents() didn't work for me, evidently because my global header swtiched in and out of PHP.

Torben on PHP Tip: Extract, Variable Variables and Templating

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:31:16 PDT

Your Tipp is very helpfull. Thx. Please change your colours - black and green isn?t good for my eyes ;-)

tee on Opacity bug in Opera 9.5 Beta

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:03:09 PDT

Hi, I googled 'opera opacity bug' and landed at your site.

I don't think the Opacity bug is fixed. I encountered it last December when making this template: http://www.lotusfromthemud.com/about1

Filed a bug report and is disappointed that it never get fixed.

Today, I discovered the bug not only affect the CSS opacity, but the opacity uses in JS too. Here is the affected page: http://marinersq.com/

When the next slide pans out, it shows a solid background, because I have a background image placed in the div, so it shows the background image.

Don't think it helps to file another report.

Rpgen Freeman on Improved click tracking

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:32:00 PDT

That seems like a pretty good tracker, i think it would be useful when you don't feel like giving away more information to google! They become so big, keeping tracking info out of their game might help slow them down a bit and make room for competition :P

Joel on Version 2 of CSS Sprite Generator released

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:07:24 PDT

Sweet! This tool is a real nice. It's saved me a bunch of time.

Eric on Equal Height Columns using CSS

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:10:12 PDT

Apologies for the three(?) misspellings.