DHTML: Tableless Layouts using CSS

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Needed a place to post my findings on tableless layouts using pure XHTML and CSS. The basic method I use is here:

http://www.moopoint.com/tutorials/css_tableless_layouts.html

My thanks to the info and discussion at http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html , it helped a lot. I use the overflow method for all my layouts and I'm always working out bugs/issues. I'll post them here as I find them. Here is the first:

imitating valign=bottom table behavior:

I found this site that suggests using absolute positioning on the "cell" to align it to the bottom of the "row". The other option they suggest is setting display=table and display=table-cell then using vertical-align on the text....turning divs into tables! Its madness!

http://www.badboy.ro/articles/2005-02-20/index.php

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