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CSS - Complex Float Layout
I'm having trouble with a table layout I'm trying to convert to a float layout
my attempt so far is as follows Code:
--loop--
lfloat{
float:left
}
boatLeft{
width:100px;
}
#cls# gets replaced with a class that only sets the background for odd and even rows.
<div class="lfloat boatLeft #cls#" style="border-right:1px solid black;height:150px;">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="displayVessel(#rssearch.YSNNUM#);">View Details*<br />
<img id="thumb#currentrow#" style="border-color:white;width:100px;" src="#getpic.thumbpicname#" alt="#boatname#" />
</a>
</div>
<div class="#cls#">
<div class="boatLeft lfloat">
<strong>Boatname</strong>
</div>
<div>
<strong>#BOATNAME#</strong>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="boatLeft lfloat">
LOA
</div>
<div>
#loam#m / #loaft#' #val(loain)#"
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="boatLeft lfloat">
Builder
</div>
<div>
#MFGNAME#
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="boatLeft lfloat">
Naval Architect
</div>
<div>
#hulldsnr#
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="boatLeft lfloat">
Designer
</div>
<div>
#designer#
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="boatLeft lfloat">
Decorator
</div>
<div>
#decorator#
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="boatLeft lfloat">
Stylist
</div>
<div>
#stylist#
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div><!--- clear the float for the outer div --->
-end loop--
in both ie and FF this looks terrible. I'm not sure If I should just be using a table here or if I should be using floats. Gary you should probably have somehting to say about that... the attachment show's how its supposed to look. The black boxes represent block level elements, not borders. Dave Similar TutorialsSo I have a layout I am totally stumped on how to get it to work. Its a centered layout. I have three divs (left, center, right) the left and right divs can't scroll up and down but the one in the middle can. The scroll bar needs to appear on the far right (just like on a normal layout). I was able to get something very close by making the two side divs fixed, but when I do this and make the screen small so that a left-right scroll bar appears when I scroll only the content in the middle scrolls (so it overlaps into the left div). Any help would be appreciated. I can't post images but if you want more info message me and I can send you a picture of the layout Does anybody know of a 3 column layout that does not use absolute positioning and uses X/HTML code like the following? I've found one where the left two columns are contained in an extra <div> (here), but I kind of need the opposite. Code: <div id="left"> </div> <div id="container"> <div id="main"> </div> <div id="sidebar"> </div> </div> I'm a designer first and foremost who is now working on learning CSS based layouts. In the past, I've always handed my PSD file off to a coder who generates the HTML/CSS. I'd like to learn how to do that portion myself. I know my way around the basics of CSS based layouts in setting up a standard 2 column layouts using floats and also 3 column layouts using absolute positioning for the left and right columns. The video tutorials from Chris at CSS-Tricks dot com were fantastic in getting me jump started by the way. Highly recommended. I'm now looking at how to draw up the framework for a more complicated layout in CSS rather than reverting back to old table based HTML but I'm stumped. Here is an image of the layout in question sans logo and content: codedpreview dot com/?view=5361 As you can see, in the body there are three columns, one spanning 50%, two spanning 25% and each column has 1 or 2 rows of section containers. This layout would be a no brainer using nested HTML tables. I'm confused on how to set up these rows within the columns using CSS. Would you essentially do the same and nest div tags within the three columns? Does anyone have any good tutorials or resources I could review in regards to setting up the body portion of this layout in particular? Thanks so much for your time and help! Hi, Is it possible to make the following "LEFT MENU" sits on left side and "RIGHT MENU" on right side without using "float" ? <div id="menu"> <div>LEFT MENU</div>'; <div>RIGHT MENU</div> </div> Thank you. I am having some trouble using float to align containers on my page. Here is what it looks like. http://filebox.vt.edu/users/kfalcon...less_broken.JPG In this image the blue area is the "content" id, the red area is the "rostercontainer" and the cream color is the "profilecontainer". I would like the profilecontainers to appear in two columns instead of one as in this image. The problem is when i add 'float : left' to the profilecontainer or rostercontainer I get the following: http://filebox.vt.edu/users/kfalcon...scrn_broken.JPG The two profile containers are now next to each other, but the rostercontainer seems to be missing, and the profilecontainers are not being loaded into the content area. From the index.php page i am using javascript to load the roster.php page into the content area. Code:
<div id="main-nav">
<dl>
<dt id="roster"><a class="loadinto-content" href="roster.php">Roster</a></dt>
</dl>
</div>
<div id="content">
<h2>Main Page</h2>
</div>
The roster.php page looks like this: PHP Code: <div class="rostercontainer"> <?php // Go through all profiles while($profile = mysql_fetch_assoc($profiles)) { ?> <div class="profilecontainer"> <img src="image3.gif" class="floatLeft" width="150" height="115" alt="image 3" /> <strong><h3 class="profile"><?php echo $profile['name']; ?></h3></strong><br/> <?php echo $profile['active']; ?><br/> <?php echo $profile['status']; ?><br/> <?php echo $profile['ride']; ?><br/> <?php echo $profile['major']; ?><br/> <?php echo $profile['hometown']; ?><br/> <?php echo $profile['info']; ?><br/> <div class="editlink"> <a href="roster_admin.php?idx=<?php echo $profile['id']; ?>">edit</a> </div> </div> <?php } ?> </div> And here is my css file, ive only included the important parts. Code:
#page-container {
width: 760px;
margin: auto;
}
#content {
font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;
background: blue;
border-top: 1px solid #efefef;
padding: 25px;
}
div.profilecontainer {
position: relative;
width: 325px;
height:200px;
margin: 10px;
padding: 5px;
background-color: #ffe;
border: 1px dashed black;
}
div#content div.rostercontainer {
background-color:red;
float : left;
}
I am not sure if this is a CSS issue or some problem with the javascript library(HTMLHttpRequest) i am using to load pages into my content area. It is really odd the adding the float to the roster/profile container would cause such a behavior. Any ideas on how i can fix this? Thanks for any help, Karl Hello all, first time poster here... I was working on a new site for an RP environment I gm using a table based layout. I ran into some problems and got fed up with it, So now for all the great reasons out there I decided to better learn CSS overnight and make the layout based on div tags and all that good stuff instead. After piling all my information into the page I've been having some funky stuff happen to the layout; the right most column moves down below the other two if the window takes up less than the 1000px width I've allotted. Does anyone know why and a way to fix this? Please feel free to rip on my usage of png-s or anything else you'd like to also Here's a temp link to the page on my site: louisjustmanDOTcom/prinz/newMOTD.html ...and a direct to my css file too: louisjustmanDOTcom/prinz/css/master.css Thanks a lot in advance! EDIT: Wow; all that time and it was a stupid mistake... extra closing div tag where i didn't need one. I'm doing a 2 column layout via css (my first attempt at doing full css layout) and I'm having some problems in firefox getting it to work right. Code:
#navBar{
float: left;
width: 20%;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background-color: #eeeeee;
border-right: 1px solid #0163CB;
}
#content{
width: 80%;
float:left;
}
then my divs are as follows:
<div id=navBar>
stuff
</div>
<div id=content>
more stuff
</div>
The problem is that in firefox the top of content sits directly to the bottom and left of the end of navBar . If I set conent width to 78% it seems to be fine but it there are borders inside content that i want to take up 100% of the remaining page. Thanks Dave Hi all, This is my first post here so go easy on me. Firstly, please look at this: h ttp://digitalformula.net/temp/layout.jpg - I can't post a proper URL since I'm a new user ... sorry for the space at the start of the address. Anyway, the top part is what I have now and the bottom part is what I'm trying to get to. Can someone please assist with the CSS for this? I know just enough CSS to be dangerous but I can't seem to find the right way to put the captions under the images without the image on the right dropping below the image and caption on the left. I've tried all different types of float etc but nothing seems to work - I know it's something I'm doing wrong as this is probably one of the more basic questions posted here. ANY help would be much appreciated! Thanks, digitalformula I have been trying to figure out how to achieve this layout with css for about an hour. I'm sure it is something very simple that I am missing. Can anyone help? It looks like the image at the address below. tophermorrison.com/css_layout.jpg I have 3 divs 1.banner (100px tall 100% wide) 2.content (100% tall 650px wide) 3.image (100px x100px) I want the image to stay relative with the content and the content to be centered. The image should be 0 from the top and centered over the right edge of the content. Is this possible? Hello, I'm new to css layouts. I had to float:left every element so the heights stretch problem is if the image in "page_c_left" is wider than 45% then "page_c_right" will automatically go on the next line. (in Firefox, IE seems to wrap the text without moving the element). also, i wanted to have the content displayed first for non-css browsers, but the examples used position:absolute. when the impression i got was that float is preferable to position. i'm very confused on which method to use for layouts. what method would you use for complex css layouts? float, position or other? this is code with the text wrap problem Code:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>test</title>
<style type="text/css">
#main_c {
float:left;
width:770px;
padding: 10px;
border: 1px solid black
}
#header_c {
float:left;
border:1px solid brown
}
#page_c {
float:left;
width:100%;
border:1px solid red
}
#page_c_left {
float:left;
padding:10px;
border:1px solid blue
}
#page_c_right {
float:left;
width:55%;
padding:10px;
border:1px solid green
}
#footer_c {
float:left;
border:1px solid yellow
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main_c">
<div id="header_c">
THIS IS THE HEADER
</div>
<div id="page_c">
<div id="page_c_left"><img src="../../photos/image.jpg" alt="image" /></div>
<div id="page_c_right">RIGHT SIDE paragraph RIGHT SIDE paragraph as ohajst aisdncn uajajs
ajshd hfhgg<br />lakshh toyt a bTr asnf f Uahdlalsl jahjsu aujsjdhduwhtn ausud aushd aiua akshdusjj<br />
ka u annf au ffsdjkfjs didjs dd sjskjdk<br /> SIDE paragraph RIGHT SIDE paragraph as ohajst aisdncn uajajs
ajshd hfhgg<br />lakshh toyt a bTr asnf f Uahdlalsl jahjsu aujsjdhduwhtn ausud aushd aiua akshdusjj<br />
ka u annf au ffsdjkfjs didjs dd sjskjdk<br />RIGHT SIDE paragraph RIGHT SIDE paragraph as ohajst aisdncn uajajs
ajshd hfhgg<br />lakshh toyt a bTr asnf f Uahdlalsl jahjsu aujsjdhduwhtn ausud aushd aiua akshdusjj<br />
ka u annf au ffsdjkfjs didjs dd sjskjdk<br /> SIDE paragraph RIGHT SIDE paragraph as ohajst aisdncn uajajs
ajshd hfhgg<br />lakshh toyt a bTr asnf f Uahdlalsl jahjsu aujsjdhduwhtn ausud aushd aiua akshdusjj<br />
ka u annf au ffsdjkfjs didjs dd sjskjdk<br /></div>
</div>
<div id="footer_c">
THIS IS THE FOOTER
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
if you could help, thank you Hi all, I've spent several hours to solve this problem, but found nothing working . The problem (well, there are much more problems ) is that I use 2-cols layout, so the left column (menu) is floating left. And now I need in the one page's head to get 2 images, one aligned to the left, the other to the right and actual text of the headings. I've found 2 good solution: 1) Classic, use float:left on one image, float:right on the other, and text-align: center on the headings. First thing I don't understand, why the image on the right is moved down? You can see it here. Then, the clear property should be used to force the headings to end bottom the images, but clear can't be used, because it also clears the menu (floating to the left) so the headings ends bottom the menu. 2) Using absolute/relative positioning - headigns can be made relatively positioned, images absolutely, one with left:0 and the other with right:0, but then the contents following after the headings is moved to the top, mixed with the heading. Similar problem is being solved in this thread, but I didn't found there anything working . Can anybody help, please? Here are used CSS: Web.css, Fotogalerie.css. At the moment I have a css layout nearly done. It works fine in IE and Firefox except for that the left navbar does not push the footer down. Instead it jumps out the parent div. The 2nd (maincontent) and 3rd (right column) do push the footer down. This wouldn't be such a problem if the navbar would contain static content, but it is dynamic and database driven. A simple solution would be to move the navigate thing to the right bar, but sadly I'm not allowed to do that. Layout CSS code Code: #body {
position:relative;
margin:0 auto;
width:94%;
min-width:50em;
max-width:70em;
border: 15px solid #ffffff;
}
#header {
/* border: 1px solid #000000;*/
height: 185px;
background-color:#ffffff;
background-image: url(../images/design/test3.jpg);
}
#outer_wrapper {
background: #ffffff url(../images/design/background_3.gif) repeat-y left;
border-top:none;
border-bottom:none;
}
#wrapper {
background: url(../images/design/background_2.gif) repeat-y right;
}
#container {
width: 100%;
float: left;
margin-right: -200px;
background: #ffffff url(../images/design/background_2.gif) repeat-y right;
/*border:1px solid #000000;*/
}
#content {
margin-right: 200px;
/*background: url(../images/design/background_3.gif) repeat-y left;*/
}
#main {
/*border:1px solid #000000;*/
margin-left: 150px;
/* background-color:#bbbbbb;*/
}
#left {
position: absolute;
top:189px;
width: 140px;
/* height: 100%;*/
float: left;
text-align: left;
/* border-left: 2px solid #bbbbbb;*/
font:normal normal normal 12px Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#sidebar {
width: 200px;
float: right;
clear:right;
}
#footer {
/* border: 1px solid #000000;*/
background: #304773;
height: 30px;
}
.last {
margin-bottom: 0;
}
.clearing {
height: 0;
clear: both;
}
Div structu Code: <div id="body">
<div id="header"><h1>Welkom bij Overeem de Haas</h1>
</div>
<div id="outer_wrapper">
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
<div id="main">
</div>
<div id="left">
<? include ("../include/navigatie.inc"); ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="sidebar">
<? include ("../include/uitloggen.inc");?>
<? include ("../include/winkelmand.inc"); ?>
</div>
<div class="clearing"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer"><p class="content"></p></div>
</div>
navigatie.inc code Code: <div id="navigatie">
<ul>
<li class="menu">Navigatie menu</li>
<li><a href="index.php">Home pagina</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Wat is Overeem?</a></li>
<? ...
echo "<li><a href=\"#\">Contact</a></li>";
echo "</ul>";
echo "</div>";
?>
Live example Can anyone (dev)shed some light on this? I just can't get it to work without messing up the 3rd column. subject isn't too good anyhow.. i have 4 cells __ __ |1 | |2 | --- --- __ __ |3| |4 | --- --- 2 and 4 are said to float right, such that 1 and 3 define the height of the page.. but.. when the contents of 2 go LONGER than the contents of 1, number 4 doesn't float right properly.. instead this happens __ __ |1 | |2 | --- | | --- | | |4| --- --- __ |3| --- do you see that? 4 tries to float right, but since it's called underneath 1, and 2 is extended, floating right relative to the page doesn't make it ACTUALLY float right any thoughts that will render this properly? (namely that cells 1 and 3 will inherit the height of 2 and 4 somehow?) Hi There - Am converting another design from tables, working with a CMS (Drupal) and an existing CSS / table combination that I didn't write and have no choice about. Think of the header as having three sections. The top section has logo on the left, search box on the right. Rounded corners. I'm cool with that section. Then there's a space. Created a div for the space. Love the space. Problems with the space in IE. Will go into it later. Then there's the next section. Rounded corners. Contains the entire page. On the left is a pulldown menu, about 1 cm from the top. On the right is a tabbed menu. This menu has flexible height. It needs to be right up against the bottom with the menu below it. Call this section the tabbed menu section. Third section. Immediately below that is a bar menu like the one Apple's got. Looks like a metal bar with divisions. Call this primary links. ---------- First, the space between. In IE, when you roll over the bar menu, the space disappears. Won't come back. Initially, in the second section, floated the pulldown menu left and the tabbed menu right. That worked fine, except that the tabbed menu had a width of 100% and pushed up the pulldown menu so the section was too wide. When I put it to 65%, all hell broke loose with the bar menu in the third section below it and bits of it snuck up into the second section. If I left it alone, and left the tabbed menu at 100%, when I checked over its container with firebug, it said that it was being affected by the primary links. I figured that out also because the background for that container was a really weird color that I finally found in the background of the navigation id and changed to white. Primary was overlapping it so I couldn't see it with firebug. So after fiddling with several clearing methods, I gave up and decided to try a table. Table worked fine, and the second section looks good except that there's a one pixel space between the tabbed menu and the bar menu. --------- It is my greatest wish right now to be able to float the pulldown to the left, the tabbed menu to the right and have the primary links stay below. I wish I could get the space to work and I wish for a clear understanding of it all so I can then figure out where to put the corners. Anyone who can enlighten me on this would have my undying gratitude. I've been working on this all day and the deadline's tomorrow. Code: <div id="top part" logo and searchbox </div> <div> that pesky space that disappears in IE when roll over primary links </div> <div id=navcontainer> dropdown and tabbed menu </div> <div id="navigation" class="menu> <!-- couldn't find the menu class in the css --> <div id="primary" class="clear-block"> contains barmenu - very fussy </div> </div> Here's the relevant CSS: Code:
div#navigation {
background: #fff url(../images/blue/menu-bg.png) 100% 100% repeat-x;
}
#primary {
line-height: 30px;
}
#primary ul {
padding:0;
margin:0;
list-style:none;
}
#primary li {
display:inline;
}
#primary a {
font-weight:bold;
display:block;
float:left;
padding:0px 14px 0px 14px;
margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px;
font-size: 95%;
}
#primary a {
background-position:0% 0px;
}
#primary a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
background-position:0% -42px;
}
#primary a.active {
background-position: 0% -84px;
}
#primary a {
background: url(../images/blue/menu-div.png) 100% 0 repeat-y;
color:#666666;
font-size: 120%;
font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
}
#primary a:hover {
color: 666666;
background: #B8B8B8;
}
#primary a.active {
color: 666666;
background: #B8B8B8;
}
This is my first try at css and i have been at it about a week on and off. I have tried to use examples from here and the o'reilly CSS cookbook. I want to create a two column row of pictures with a caption. I selected DIV as the tool (my css is below). The container DIV looks great. I want the div.float, however, to start a second row when a third picture is added and to continue thereafter with successive two column rows. Unfortunately, each of my rows contain only one picture. here is my css style sheet. A demonstration of the problem can be seen at: http://www.yourline-online.com/demo05/?How_to_create_pages Code: div.float {
float: left;
BORDER-RIGHT: #808080 2px solid;
PADDING-RIGHT: 2px;
BORDER-TOP: #808080 2px solid;
PADDING-LEFT: 2px;
FONT-WEIGHT: lighter;
FONT-SIZE: medium;
PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px;
MARGIN: 16px 2%;
BORDER-LEFT: #808080 2px solid;
COLOR: #000000;
PADDING-TOP: 2px;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #808080 2px solid;
HEIGHT: 200px;
WIDTH: 150px;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff;
TEXT-DECORATION: none
}
div.float p {
text-align: center;
}
div.container {
border: 2px dashed #333;
background-color: #ffe;
}
div.spacer {
clear: both;
}
MY HTML is like this: Code: H1>How to create pages</H1> <P>The headings are used for splitting up the content file. An H1, H2 or H3 heading will dynamically split the document into new pages in the table of contents. An H4-heading is used as a heading within a page. See the following pages...<BR></P> <P></P> <DIV class=container> <DIV class=spacer></DIV> <DIV class=float><IMG height=100 alt="image 1" src="image1.gif" width=100> <P>caption 1</P></DIV> <DIV class=spacer></DIV> <DIV class=float><IMG height=100 alt="image 2" src="image2.gif" width=100> <P>caption 2</P></DIV> <DIV class=spacer> <DIV class=float><IMG height=100 alt="image 3" src="http://www.yourline-online.com/demo05/image3.gif" width=100> <P>caption 3</P></DIV> <DIV class=spacer></DIV></DIV></DIV> Hi all, I have a bit of an odd situation (prob not odd if you seen it before but I have no clue why its doing it!).... I have my webpage: http://www.houseofhawkins.com/index.html which works great in IE. the part in question is the menu tabs at the top. Within IE they keep the width I have given them.. In firefox they only go to the width of the text. They are links with the following CSS attached: div#Header #MenuSection a.MenuTab { PHP Code: filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(endColorstr='#A8DBA8', startColorstr='#A4B7A4', gradientType='0'); font-weight: bold; text-align: center; font-size: 1.3em; background-color: #BCD6BC; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border-color: #A5BEA5 #BCD6BC #BCD6BC #A5BEA5; margin: 0 5px 0 2px; height: 1.5em; width: 140px; padding: 5px 1px 1px 1px; } div#Header #MenuSection { float:left; margin-top: 30px; } here is the HTML code for that part of the page. PHP Code: <div ID="MenuSection"> <a Class="SelectedMenuTab" Title="You are currently viewing the Home page">Home</a> <a Class="MenuTab" href="" title="Curriculum Vitae for Jonathan Hawkins, Author of House of Hawkins">CV</a> <a Class="MenuTab" href="http://houseofhawkins.com/projects/index.html" title="Portfolio of Work created by Jon Hawkins">Portfolio</a> <a Class="MenuTab" href="" title="Online Photo Gallery of Jon, friends and family">Photo Gallery</a> <a Class="MenuTab" href="http://houseofhawkins.com/games.html" title="Games created by House of Hawkins">Games</a> </div> <div style="clear:left"> </div> I just dont get why firefox wont be nice and give me the width I ask for... the oddest bit is if I put float:left into the menutab part they do work! I wish to understand why its like this... I have attached the CSS and the file if that helps anyone. Thanks for the help and advice. I wish to set up a table but do not know how to go a step further. What I have done up to now is... Code:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.container {
width: 500px;
height: 300px;
}
.colLeft {
width: 30px;
height: 400px;
float: left;
background-color: beige;
}
.barTop {
width: 400px;
height: 30px;
float: left;
background-color: LightBlue
}
.colRight {
width: 30px;
height: 400px;
float: left;
background-color: LightGreen;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="colLeft">cl</div>
<div class="barTop">bt</div>
<div class="colRight">cr</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
But what I need to get is... Can you help me? Thanks! Help? I have designed a look for one of my buddies companies. However, it is quite complicated. I have attached the .GIF file for you to reference. The design needs to be cross-browser friendly. The navigation is going to be dynamically built using a backend application built in PHP. The nav_links will be text not images, as well as the text next to the "did you know" items. I imagine that the placement of some of the "did you know" items can be arranged to ease the slicing process. Also, the left main image (the guy) needs to be dynamic in that it rotates through images on refresh or a revisit (probably some javascript). On top of all that, I need the "featured" or "did you know" items i.e. the round images and text to dynamically change also. These will be likes into specific sections of the site. My major concern is getting the main header pieced together correctly while meeting cross-browser compatibility. I have some CSS knowledge but as i mentioned the design is quite advanced. Any ideas on how to correctly structure it to work? TIA BA I would like to do the following on a web page but not sure how. Tried a few things but it didnt display what I was hoping for... I want essentially a 3 layered background image. The main background is one image that is tiled in all directions The second image is tiled in x but attached to the top of the screen The third image is the same as the second image but attached to the bottom of the screen. Over the top of this I want to use html tables and have the background displayed through the empty table cells. Is this possible? Any help appreciated I am trying to create a completely non-uniform layout for one of my clients using only CSS. I would like to accomplish this using only floats that are cross-browser supported. The layout is split up into 9 different panels that need to be positioned correctly. Is this achieved simply by using float and clear? I have been experimenting and have been failing. What about positioning? Would kind of positioning would I use to arrange something inside of a parent div? See attached file for layout. P.S. I know I can get this exact layout done using tables, but I would much rather do this with some "simple" CSS. |
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