Re: Designing with tables and spacer GIFs

hey jakob

Jakob Åberg wrote:
> First of all, thanks to all of you who have been doing some very impressive
> work in developing Plone. I'm new to this list and quite new to Zope / Plone
> as well. I love it so far. I'll do my best to contribute with my experiences
> once I get a hang on it.
> 
> So far everything is going fine. I have some problems though finding my way
> through all the CSS-styles. I'm trying to do a very exact design where
> everything is positioned to the pixel. This would be a simple task using
> div-layers, but since I'm using a centered design I had to go for tables and
> spacer gifs.

you can center divs aswell: 
http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/basic_centered.html
http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/centered-css/

joe geldart (Arnia on irc - #plonedesign if you're interested) mentioned 
a technique where you can center even vertically: 
http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/thebox/deadcentre4.html

so no need for tables :) we wouldn't claim to be so flexible with css if 
this wasn't possible ;)

> The first row that should be two pixels high renders as about 10 pixels
> high.

actually, i don't know how to use tables anymore (yes thats really true) 
so i can't help you with the code snippet :)

> I tried to remove "plone.css", which obviously ruins most of the design, but
> it made the blank row look like intended. Does anyone know if there is a
> style that set a margin to images or table cells or something? Was this
> intended to be done in some other way? I've seen examples of people who
> apply a text style to blank spaces, with font-size and line-height set to
> one pixel...

i don't exactly see what you mean - i don't think we're applying 
anything on tables or images.

regards, michael
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