Sent by Matt Ashby on 30 January 2003 18:06
J.D. Welch wrote:
> since i'm not sure there is any definitive answer, this is really more
> of a philosophical question, but i'm very interested in what this group
> thinks: does a grid of thumbnail images constitue a legitimate use of a
> table? i have several sites that utilize groups of clickable images
> (without lables or other data--just a grid of small images), and a
> simple table suits displaying them perfectly. is it worth figuring out
> a css counterpart--though i have no idea how i'd do a 4x4-cell grid
> without a mess of absolute positioning--or is a table the best choice?
A table is almost certainly the best solution, but I don't think that
thumbnails are tabular data. The one exception to this would be
when the thumbnails each corresponded to a particular criterion,
for example a day of the week, each of which formed a column.
Alternatively, couldn't you just put a set number of thumbnails on
each line inside a <p> tag? This would work best with a fixed-width
design, but you could also use the 'white-space: nowrap' property.
Matt Ashby - I Yahoo!, but only reluctantly
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