Comments on: Making Tables Harder Than They Need To Be

By: Dan Allen

Dan Allen — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:54:31 +0000

It’s wrong to tell someone how to design their application. As Jason cited, tables are often much faster and therefore save you time and money trying to get the CSS right. Don’t rationalize money spent when you don’t know the situation. CSS takes a long time to get right, especially for those that don’t have extensive knowledge of it or a cheat in their back pocket.

So +1 for Jason.

By: Jason Lee

Jason Lee — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:18:22 +0000

I’m aware of the reasons not to do it, but as I noted, sometimes I just don’t care enough to do the work. I think I’ll try to crank out a JSF component to do that for me though.

By: Aline

Aline — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:15:52 +0000

It is wrong to use tables to structure forms.
Creating the CSS is more complicated on the first time, but once it is created, just use it.
Moreover, the size of the pages when structured with tables becomes much bigger .

By: Hobi

Hobi — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:36:40 +0000

I know many people agrees that using table is a lame way to design a messy form. Cool kids use

but I am old school when comes to design a form that has couple dozen fields. I feel, table gives me more control and I can get around with a table lot quicker than fiddling with

/css or . I have tried to layout my form and it seemed to be I had hard time put things in right place using than a simple html table.

By: Jason Lee

Jason Lee — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:22:28 +0000

I understand the arguments, and sometimes agree, depending on what you catch me on. As a general rule, I avoid basing my entire page layout on tables, as that gets really messy in a hurry. Sometimes, though, it’s just easier to put my from in a table and let the browser handle sizing the fields for me automatically, as opposed to trying to manully insure correct size via css. In short, sometimes I’m just too lazy to do it the right way.

By: Richard@Home

Richard@Home — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:11:36 +0000

escaped my markup

markup:

[div class='field']
[label]label[label] [input /]
[/div]

By: Richard@Home

Richard@Home — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:10:52 +0000

” Right or wrong, I do it from time to time”

It’s wrong . Forms are not tabulatory data. What’s wrong with:

markup:

foo

css:
div.field {
clear: both;
}
label {
float: left;
width: 10em;
}