HTML coding

3 years of CSS will do this to a person....

[edit_g]

I'm going crazy - I'm coding up an advertisment with some html code in it (a search box, one line of text, some images) and I can't use CSS (running on large ad network etc)...

I'm getting my TD's mixed up with my TR's and my TABLE's... I'm stuck with cellpadding and cellspacing, rowspans and, wait for it, FONT tags!

I haven't coded up html tables and FONT tags since, quite possibly, 2000... And back then I used to use dreamweaver. Gaaaarrrrh!

I hand code CSS just fine, but I'm so used to using DIV's, classes, ID's and a few <p> tags here and there that I'm finding this html lark quite hard...

Only one 468x60 banner to go... Wish me luck.

[troels nybo nielsen]

A regression may be quite healthy now and then. And it will do you good next time you are to advise a CSS newbie.

Font tags, shudddderrr.....

[TheDoctor]

My sympathies, edit_g. I get completely confused by tables.

I've no idea why people claim they're simple. I can only code them up with a manual right in front of me.

[grelmar]

It depends on what you're used to.

CSS is a complete mystery to me.

Mind, I'm perfectly happy being an anachronism.

[TheDoctor]

If you don't know CSS, then obviously you'll find it difficult at first. But that's different.

Tables aren't a mystery to me. I just find them appallingly complicated. By its nature, a table has to have a massive number of parameters (even if most of them are left at the default) and this is all too much for a bear of little brain such as myself to keep in his head.

[grelmar]

I suppose it's one opf those "never look back" things.

I do tables because it's what I know, and I can manipulate them well and know every in and out of them.

I keep promising myself to sit down one weekend and just "learn" CSS, and I suspect that once I do, I'll wonder what the heck took me so long, and realize I've been wasting huge amounts of time (developping) and bandwidth (posting).

Trouble is, every time I go to look up CSS tutorials on the web, the one's posted are obtuse, at best. I have YET to find a decent one that would make life easy for lazy old me. So I keep chugging away with Tables and Font Tags.

And no, don't point me to Zeldman's site. I've been there, read that, and chucked it out of my bookmarks list a half dozen times already.

[vkaryl]

grel - I learned CSS basics by using an editor....

[grelmar]

Which one?

I have to admit, I've mostly jsut been obstinate about not doing CSS. It's one of those things, the more people keep telling me to do it, the less inclined I am to actually do it...

I really need to get over that.

_{but I LIKE boxes inside boxes inside more boxes...}

[Leosghost]

you probably had one of those russian dolls when you were a kid..conditioning ..'sides imagine trying to CSS a russian doll ....