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Tricky Table Usage Liam Gibbs 06-08-2008
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Posted by Liam Gibbs on June 8, 2008, 11:11 pm
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Hello everyone,

I'm having a problem with a site I'm building. It uses tables, but
it's really tricky. A picture of the layout I need can be found at
http://www.altmarvel.net/Liam/WHATINEED.jpg (sorry for the all-caps in
the filename).

What I need is a table that with two sides: the left is headers, and
the right is information, like so:

Product number: 123456789
Product name: Lawnmower
Colour: Fire engine red
etc. etc.

However, I need to include an inset of the picture of the product in
the right-top corner. However, the product picture could be any size,
so it might span down three TDs, four TDs, all TDs. So I can't make a
third TR that spans any specific number of TDs. Also, there is a
product description and some reviews of the product that could stretch
those TDs to any length, making the prediction of any ROWSPAN even
more impossible. How do I do this?

I've seen this done on other sites, but their code is so disorganized
that reading it for clues gives me headaches.

Posted by Jonathan N. Little on June 8, 2008, 11:50 pm
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Liam Gibbs wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm having a problem with a site I'm building. It uses tables, but
> it's really tricky. A picture of the layout I need can be found at
> http://www.altmarvel.net/Liam/WHATINEED.jpg (sorry for the all-caps in
> the filename).

You cannot do it with a table, the inset into "reviews" cell. Shouldn't
use a table anyway...can be done with divs and floated image.


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Posted by Bergamot on June 11, 2008, 1:50 pm
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Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> Liam Gibbs wrote:
>>
>> A picture of the layout I need can be found at
>> http://www.altmarvel.net/Liam/WHATINEED.jpg
>
> Shouldn't
> use a table anyway...

Why not? It looks like tabular data to me.

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Posted by dorayme on June 9, 2008, 12:17 am
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In article

> I'm having a problem with a site I'm building. It uses tables, but
> it's really tricky. A picture of the layout I need can be found at
> http://www.altmarvel.net/Liam/WHATINEED.jpg (sorry for the all-caps in
> the filename).
>
> What I need is a table that with two sides: the left is headers, and
> the right is information, like so:
>
> Product number: 123456789
> Product name: Lawnmower
> Colour: Fire engine red
> etc. etc.
>
> However, I need to include an inset of the picture of the product in
> the right-top corner. However, the product picture could be any size,
> so it might span down three TDs, four TDs, all TDs. So I can't make a
> third TR that spans any specific number of TDs. Also, there is a
> product description and some reviews of the product that could stretch
> those TDs to any length, making the prediction of any ROWSPAN even
> more impossible. How do I do this?

Will this do you? Shout if you need anything in it explained:

<http://dorayme.890m.com/alt/productTableWithImage.html>

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Posted by Liam Gibbs on June 9, 2008, 8:22 am
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> Will this do you? Shout if you need anything in it explained:
>
> <http://dorayme.890m.com/alt/productTableWithImage.html>

Close, but I can't leave the image in its own column like that. Too
much screen space wasted. :( Thanks, though.

>You cannot do it with a table, the inset into "reviews" cell. Shouldn't
>use a table anyway...can be done with divs and floated image.

Okay. How do you do it in divs?

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