<div style="display: table; height: 700px; width: 300px; background: #aaa; _position: relative; overflow: hidden;">
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Analyze that. . . .i apologize to all my fans for my absentism, i am just pissed off with the board. And yes, my site is down for now - just too busy to sort things out. Will fix all that soonest.
But the increasingly popular nse api is on www.nse.dhtmlkits.com

This has always been an interesting phenomenon to me as googling will tell you that there is some CSS code to do it and it is cross-browser but it actually isn't true. I thought I was the only one who had this problem.

For me, I either do what you've just done or add top padding line height. In general though, I try to avoid positioning as much as I can.

Good luck!

Heh. Programmers like to create work for themselves. It's cute. Tables are too easy, so let's use DIVs and mind-bending CSS!

Seun: Heh. Programmers like to create work for themselves. It's cute. Tables are too easy, so let's use DIVs and mind-bending CSS!

thanks for the tutorial

U are all welcome. Well, this solution solved a little challenge i faced on nooce.net - where the site had to use a cms - and that right area has to align center,
i wanted to use the line-height thinggy, but i felt it might cause some issues, but this method works fine - and is crossbrowser too (to my surprise),
and yes, works even in the dreaded and dreadful internet explorer (to my greatest shock).

Seun: Heh. [b]Programmers like to create work for themselves. [/b]It's cute. Tables are too easy, so let's use DIVs and mind-bending CSS!

Very very Funny
@Dhtml answer nah

Hmmn, i can see that you are looking for a fight to liven up the board eh? But i am tooo bored even to fight sef. . . .

Tables!

It appears some of you are trying to do a debate over table-based layouts and DIV-based layouts.

DIV is d best surely

DIV may seem better, but table is easier for beginners. . . (but not in the long run)

omo_to_dun: I actually agree with Seun. Some folks would swear by CSS-based layout and speak constantly of the ills of the table tag. At the extreme are those who would use a CSS layout for tabular data; their motto is: CSS is good, table is bad. I am a CSS proponent, but in this case, I'll use a table. Life is too short.

You are wrapping with 2 mouths jare. Anyway, i mix the two of them. . . .but i am more of a web programmer than a frontend person sha. But i do know that when i want to make cms themes, table-based layouts are serious headaches especially when tables are nested into each other.

Crap! Nothing is being criticize here at all. Wait o, i made a post on DIV-based layouts, it is very simple, if you dont like DIVs, leave the thread alone.
Why must you guys always derail a good thread? Kai!

Here we go again, i think some people are too lazy to learn how to make DIV-based layouts, and so they criticize those that use them (that is what i am seeing clearly here). Well, despite being a programmer, i use the two quite well - and i am proud to be a web programmer.

its been 2 years i used tables last. Divs all the way. They are 'scalable' and reusable.
If you ever had to create a theme or layout from scratch, you'ld understand why divs are so important.
They can be over lapped and preprogrammed.
If you were porting a template from photoshop into html and css it would be very stupid to put anything in tables.
Tables are out dated, deprecated.
Its a short cut but some short cuts leave long scars.
Since i met divs i never ever used tables again!

moderattor: its been 2 years i used tables last. Divs all the way. They are 'scalable' and reusable.
If you ever had to create a theme or layout from scratch, you'ld understand why divs are so important.
They can be over lapped and preprogrammed.
If you were porting a template from photoshop into html and css it would be very stupid to put anything in tables.
Tables are out dated, deprecated.
Its a short cut but some short cuts leave long scars.
Since i met divs i never ever used tables again!

Stop fully criticising tables, they are still useful and its good to use both table and DIV together, in some cases whereby you do form, u need tablles if u need to put some maggi styling in the form

Na wa o, this thread is getting more and more hilarious - with catapults and bangers (not bombs) being thrown. . .

Now where is that my doncigalo amigo??

Seun: Heh. Programmers like to create work for themselves. It's cute. Tables are too easy, so let's use DIVs and mind-bending CSS!

Waiting now?

Folks:

You can choose to walk from VI to Ikeja and you can choose to put water in your radiator as opposed to anti-freeze. You can even choose to use spinach to cook your edikang ikong as opposed to waterleaf and you can use an e-reader to read your books as opposed to reading an actual book. Heck! You can even use DIVs to partition your paragraphs, as opposed to using actual P tags and it will still work, right? Let me go a bit further: You can use a while loop as opposed to a for loop or do-while loop. The issue of tables as it relates to this post, as opposed to CSS, is a matter of semantic coding.

We shouldn't use a piece of code as a cop out or "because it works" but because it is the right piece of code (and I am talking at all levels: front, back and business logic) for the situation. Tables semantically have their place (tabular data and HTML-based emails).

The mark of a true and disciplined coder is recognizing that one has tons of weapons at their disposal and uses the best one that fits the situation.

ON ANOTHER TOPIC: How come I can't create a new topic? Or is it location-specific? Just when I am starting to love coming back to NL more than 2ce a day, make una no kill my passion o

Intwesting

@ Omo to dun and Dhtml, is the arguement for websites building generally or for data presentation?

Because we all know that its better to build websites with CSS(*DIVS*) these days for a number of reasons. However for presentation of Data, tables are easier and better and they can also be styled and presented better with css.

So one could have a site designed with CSS but also integrate styled Tables when it wants to present data that is perfectly aligned...

^^^No way, the thread has been derailed, it is now a free for all. My view is that developers like omo_to_dun are oldskul with almost extinct skills. . . .

@dhtml,

I want to start a classified site but I need ur advise about the software I can use.

I know some html,Css,PHP/MYSQL and joomla

Should one start from the ground or use something like joomla classified module.

Pls help

I use all of the above. It depends on many things really. One of them is your expertise using the above method.
Some people like a certain Leke Ojikutu (http://www.lekeojikutu.com/) can use Joomla for well almost anything, while i can use drupal for almost anything.

If i want to do a classified site, i will look at the functionalities i want it to have and decide if it is best done by drupal or from ground-up.

I also consider how much i am being paid and how much stress i am going to go through (some people like yawatide will disagree with me on this one).

Please guys, i need tags that my users could create their own group and invite his/her friends and user can join the group please help thanks