Sent by Big John on 29 September 2002 02:02
Lea wrote:
> I'm doing some geneological displays and am doing the usual
> tree structure for ancestors and descendants, and I was
> wondering if anyone had looked at doing this with CSS - I
> cant think of any sensible way to do the displays -
> certainly each tree-node can be placed fairly nicely with
> absolute positioning - but how on earth would you get the
> lines connecting the nodes?
Hi Lea!
I've been musing over a family tree like this recently.
I figure if the nodes were placed absolutely using pixels,
then a "body' BG with skinny black lines could be made, to
'connect' the nodes. A gif this simple would have low
bandwidth, even if huge. Non-image methods might be possible,
but it would be VERY tricky. My head hurts just thinking
about it.
HTH
Big John
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