Styling Headers, Paragraphs and Main Columns of DIV-Based CSS Tables
If you’re a web designer who uses a few divs to create the layouts of the pages that comprise your web sites, then this group of articles might be useful to you. You'll be particularly interested if you want to keep up with the new trends of modern web development. In this article series, you’ll find an approachable guide to using CSS tables to build table-less web document layouts, without floating containers or negative margins.
Styling Headers, Paragraphs and Main Columns of DIV-Based CSS Tables - The complete source code of the three-column web page (Page 4 of 4 )
As I anticipated in the previous section, below I included the complete source code of the web page built in the beginning, this time incorporating the additional CSS styles created before. Here it is:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<title>Example of div-based web page layout using CSS tables (some elements are basically styled)</title>
<style type="text/css">
body{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
background: #fff;
}
h2{
margin: 0;
font: bold 14pt Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #036;
}
p{
font: normal 11px Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #333;
}
#tablewrapper{
border-collapse: collapse;
display: table;
table-layout: fixed;
}
#navbar, #maincol, #sidebar{
display: table-cell;
}
#navbar{
width: 20%;
padding: 15px;
background: #ccf;
}
#maincol{
width: 50%;
padding: 15px;
background: #eee;
}
#sidebar{
width: 30%;
padding: 15px;
background: #9cf;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="tablewrapper">
<div id="navbar">
<h2>This is the left column of the web page</h2>
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</div>
<div id="maincol">
<h2>This is the center column of the web page</h2>
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</div>
<div id="sidebar">
<h2>This is the right column of the web page</h2>
<p>Contents for right column go here. Contents for right column go here. Contents for right column go here. Contents for right column go here. Contents for right column go here.</p>
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</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
A final reminder before you finish reading this tutorial: if you’re planning to test the above example on your own machine, don’t forget that it won’t work with Internet Explorer 7 and below, since it lacks adequate support for CSS tables. Naturally, Mozilla Firefox and other standards-compliant browsers will render the tables as expected.
Final thoughts
In this third part of the series, I demonstrated how to improve, at a basic level, the visual appearance of the previous web page, which was created with CSS tables. Obviously, this process is very simple to grasp, and doesn’t require additional explanation.
However, it’s possible that at this moment you’re wondering how to add a header and a footer sections to the web page. That’s a good question, but if you want to know the answer, you’ll have to read the upcoming article!
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Adding Headers and Footers with DIV-Based CSS Tables
