Your first question immediately might be, “why would I want to simulate a table with a list, why not just use a table?” With the raise in popularity of AJAX sortable list elements, using list items to represent a multiple column data table can allow for easy sorting of various more “tabley” information. So let’s get started.
First let’s look at our HTML:
Now the CSS:
Ok - I’ve left something out for space. I also implement the clearfix solution as given at: http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html
I’ll keep this post short, because I’m expecting that you can figure out everything that was done by the HTML and CSS. Hope it helps someone somewhere to do something cool.
Result:
Hi there,
This is great (and thanks, therefore!) but unfortunately does not address my concerns!
I need to be spitting out “table” rows dynamically but can’t use tables because sections of the “table” are grouped with an accordion.
So I’m trying to find a way to do it with non-table CSS.
Your method is great but the layout breaks if some of the cell data flows into two or more lines!
What I am trying to build is a way to have the “rows” expand if one “cell” is taller than one line.
Any clues on this..?
qryss