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---- Layers AND tables


mivox - 9:21 pm on May 4, 2001 (gmt 0)


the footer must be attached to the bottom of the body

Actually, the footer table is called by SSI into the end of the body table's <div>... So they're separate tables, enclosed in the same 'layer'. The order of appearance in the HTML is: 1.body 2.footer 3.header

I'm also using CSS for most of my text formatting, which is a hassle with Netscape, but finally seems to be working out its kinks well enough to look good cross-browser.

The CSS declarations which position the content tables are embedded into the <head> of each document, and the text declarations are in an external style sheet.

I'm pretty excited... it's looking good in all the browser/platform combos I've checked it on. The HTML puts all the text 'meat' right at the top of the page for the SE spiders (instead of burying it under the nested, intricate header tables), and declaring text sizes in pixels via CSS has virtually elminated cross-platform text size problems. (Except for those who override it... and anyone who knows enough about their browser settings to override my CSS should understand that they're asking for ugly trouble. Ditto for those who use browsers too old to understand it.)


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