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Re: Flexible table/grid

From: Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@tigerstaden.no>
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 10:35:08 +0100
To: Markus Jonsson <carnaby@passagen.se>, www-html@w3.org
Message-id: <op.s1ep8ut816f2qb@quark.hv1alan>

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:35:29 +0100, Markus Jonsson <carnaby@passagen.se>  
wrote:

> Shouldn't there be a Grid element, similar to the GtkIconView of the  
> GTK+ toolkit?

No.

> Unlike a TABLE, you wouldn't have to specify rows and columns. The
> number of cols/rows would be rearranged automatically due to the
> measures of the container.

This is very easy to accomplish with some simple CSS and that is the  
intended way to solve such problems. Design- and presentation-related  
things like this has nothing to do with HTML.

What you would do in CSS is typically float ('float: left') elements with  
specified height and width inside a container. When the container's width  
increases, more elements will fit on the same line (or "row") and would  
give a fluid look, almost like GtkIconView.

-- 
Asbjørn Ulsberg     -=|=-    http://virtuelvis.com/quark/ 
«He's a loathsome offensive brute, yet I can't look away»
Received on Wednesday, 7 December 2005 09:33:47 GMT
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