Brian <us*****@julietremblay.com.invalid-remove-this-part> wrote:
I have a restaurant menu to layout.
http://www.tsmchughs.com/menus/
The menu at e.g. http://www.tsmchughs.com/menus/lunch is quite conveniently
readable - on Lynx. It's less clear on graphic browsers. Except when printed
using your print style sheet, which creates a pretty good presentation,
though it would probably benefit from bolding the dish names.
The format is item name, price, description, and possibly additional
price info (e.g., soup and salad price).
As usual, I wish to point out that you are actually (ab)using <dl> markup
for presentational effects, rather than presenting a list of definitions
(does "$2.95 / Bowl $5.95" constitute a definition of what the term "Soup of
the Day" means?), and then encounter problems with the styling of <dl>
elements.
I currently have the items in 2 columns
And this is somewhat inflexible - it does not work well in narrow windows,
especially since there's the site navigation meny on the left.
There are various approaches to how a menu should be marked up. Instead of
<dl>, I would consider using a table - after all, it is tabular information,
with structurally similar sets of data for each dish - or, maybe more
practically if you don't prefer visual tabular presentation, a collection of
class'ed <div> elements containing headings (<h2>, with the dish names). In
the latter case, you could relatively easily make the entries boxes with a
specific width and height (in em units of course), with borders and floated
to the left, and with adequate padding and margins.
I would actually suggest the simple linear approach, i.e. the <div> way,
which makes it possible to change the appearance later, by changing just a
style sheet, in the best case.
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