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Sun 2007-03-18

CSS for table displays

Filed under: — daniel @ 10:33

After much time swearing over how to get a table-like display out of CSS, I was stumped. All I wanted was an definition with the label on the left hand side and the text on the right, wrapped into a column.

And let me tell you: given my limited knowledge of it, wrestling with CSS is not my idea of fun.

Finally after scouring Google for various terms, I did a search for “hanging indents” which led me to a good way to do it using dd dt and dl tags, and appropriate CSS for each. Eureka! (Yes, if I’d thought about it, these tags are for “definitions”, precisely what I was trying to do.)

Thank you, the good people at Max Design.

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