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I looked at the source code for v1.1. Will be tableless? (Currently not.)

which parts are you complkaning about?

the layout is not a made from tables.


there is also nothing wrong with using tables they are all part of the html

That's right. There is no problem. Table is a html selector. Just I think this isn't "trend". For example in catalog\view\template\common\home.tpl see

If firefox and IE supported full CSS2 I would be fine using divs but they don't.

What happens if you don't set a height is they start going out of wack and not dropping to the next line. If you set a height and someone enters a long tilte the information falls out of the bottom of the div box.

The list page is fine because its tubular data.

I think the current way using a table for the product grid is perfectly ok. Some will argue that semantically it's a list and not tabular data.


However, there will be problems if a product title is a little bit too long (see illustration below). I know, chances for this to happen aren't very high, but you can easily fix it.


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If you give table-layout:fixed to the CSS of the table, it will stick to the width you specified via CSS (also works with tables that are set to width=100%).
If you add overflow:hidden, the long title won't flow out of the table
the result:
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Daniel wrote: What happens if you don't set a height is they start going out of wack and not dropping to the next line. If you set a height and someone enters a long tilte the information falls out of the bottom of the div box.

A way around this is to add -- before closing the main div.

Fido-X.