General Guidance Sought on Using Style Position

[jm]

I have two tables. If I leave them alone, one will print on the
screen, then below it the next, etc. This is normal.

However, I want table one on the left and table two on the right of
the screen.

Both are populated by two different queries, so they are not exactly
created at the same time.

I decided to use styles to position:absolu te the second table to the
right of the first table (much like a brochure, for example).

I am worried that this is not correct. For example, my text size is
set at smaller, but on medium the tables are not lined up right. The
blend into each other and when the browser's text size is larger,
well, it looks terrible.

How could I have achieved the same thing without this CSS style
"trick?" Thanks for advice.

[Tim Van Wassenhove]

On 2004-01-30, jm <jo************ *@yahoo.com> wrote:

However, I want table one on the left and table two on the right of
the screen.

And where is PHP related to this? I think you're better of in a
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.* groups

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[CountScubula]

get the results in php before you make the tables, then:

<table>
<tr>
<td> (table 1)</td>
<td> (table 2)</td>
</tr>
</table>
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Mike Bradley
http://www.gzentools.com -- free online php tools
"jm" <jo************ *@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I have two tables. If I leave them alone, one will print on the
screen, then below it the next, etc. This is normal.

However, I want table one on the left and table two on the right of
the screen.

Both are populated by two different queries, so they are not exactly
created at the same time.

I decided to use styles to position:absolu te the second table to the
right of the first table (much like a brochure, for example).

I am worried that this is not correct. For example, my text size is
set at smaller, but on medium the tables are not lined up right. The
blend into each other and when the browser's text size is larger,
well, it looks terrible.

How could I have achieved the same thing without this CSS style
"trick?" Thanks for advice.

[Eric Bohlman]

Tim Van Wassenhove <eu**@pi.be> wrote in news:bvcp3a$qol 0g$1@ID-
188825.news.uni-berlin.de:

On 2004-01-30, jm <jo************ *@yahoo.com> wrote:

However, I want table one on the left and table two on the right of
the screen.

And where is PHP related to this? I think you're better of in a
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.* groups

comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets [to which I've set the
followups] is probably the best place; the OP will most likely be told
there that he should abandon absolute positioning and float both tables
left, which will result in the second table being to the right of the first
if there's enough room in the viewport, or below the first if there isn't.
Or maybe float the first one left and the second one right.

[jm]

Tim Van Wassenhove <eu**@pi.be> wrote in message news:<bv******* *****@ID-188825.news.uni-berlin.de>...

On 2004-01-30, jm <jo************ *@yahoo.com> wrote:

However, I want table one on the left and table two on the right of
the screen.

And where is PHP related to this? I think you're better of in a
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.* groups

I created the page in PHP. Perhaps, it might be related.

[Tony Marston]

"jm" <jo************ *@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:c6******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...

Tim Van Wassenhove <eu**@pi.be> wrote in message

news:<bv******* *****@ID-188825.news.uni-berlin.de>...

On 2004-01-30, jm <jo************ *@yahoo.com> wrote:

However, I want table one on the left and table two on the right of
the screen.

And where is PHP related to this? I think you're better of in a
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.* groups

I created the page in PHP. Perhaps, it might be related.

But what you are creating is HTML, therefore it is an HTML problem. You
could be creating the output with PHP, Java, C++ or .NET but it would still
be an HTML problem.

Tony Marston

[Chung Leong]

My advice? Don't use CSS-P unless if you to. Tables are usually more
reliable.

Uzytkownik "jm" <jo************ *@yahoo.com> napisal w wiadomosci
news:c6******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...

I have two tables. If I leave them alone, one will print on the
screen, then below it the next, etc. This is normal.

However, I want table one on the left and table two on the right of
the screen.

Both are populated by two different queries, so they are not exactly
created at the same time.

I decided to use styles to position:absolu te the second table to the
right of the first table (much like a brochure, for example).

I am worried that this is not correct. For example, my text size is
set at smaller, but on medium the tables are not lined up right. The
blend into each other and when the browser's text size is larger,
well, it looks terrible.

How could I have achieved the same thing without this CSS style
"trick?" Thanks for advice.

[Phil Roberts]

With total disregard for any kind of safety measures "Chung Leong"
<ch***********@ hotmail.com> leapt forth and uttered:

My advice? Don't use CSS-P unless if you to. Tables are usually
more reliable.

And while you're at it, carry on using Dreamweaver. Hand coding
HTML and PHP is just WAY too hard.

</sarcasm>

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Phil Roberts | Nobody In Particular | http://www.flatnet.net/