Sent by Micah S Sittig on 23 June 2002 15:03
Merkey, Brett wrote:
>>> For those of you for whom typographical conventions of the print world
>>> are relevant, I offer a lightweight and very flexible standards compliant
>>> way to create dot leaders in Table of Contents simulations.
>>>
>>> http://home.tampabay.rr.com/bmerkey/examples/dot-leaders.html
then Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
> Having fixed those two things...
> http://www.l-c-n.com/lab/dots.html
This example, combined with some rather strong opinions expressed on this
list recently that tables should be avoided at all costs, got me to
thinking. I thought "divs are cool and all, but would I use them to
mark-up a *Table* of Contents?" So I came up with the following version:
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~takoyaki/css-test/tables/
Granted, it uses a single table for each line. I thought perhaps the
whole Table could be put in one table, you could apply a border to the
bottom of each row, then put a 0 pixel border on the cells and do a border
collapse? I still don't quite understand that yet.
Whipping this off the top of my head in one evening, I didn't come up with
a good way in mark-up to express the parent-child relationship between
sections and their sub-sections either, but neither did the original
example. Maybe somebody can come up with something better.
Not that this is a pressing issue.
-Micah
