Hi,

I am writing a server app which outputs XHTML forms. I am wondering whether
to structure the generated form in table tags, or alternatively, div tags
leaving the formatting to CSS.

i.e. Is a form built up of rows of label and input pairs semantically
'tabular data'? I can't decide.

Any opinions?

Cheers,
Matt

Matt Dockerty wrote:

Opinions differ. Plenty of people would say that it's suitable for a table,
and if you are doing the rest of the website well, you're doing far better
than average already. However, if you do decide to go with a <table>
element [1], be sure to take advantage of all the uncommon, but informative
attributes and elements associated with tables (e.g. scope), and forms
(e.g. <label>).


[1] See part 5: <URL:http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/faq-not.txt>


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Andy Dingley wrote:


Ermm... *summary* attribute?

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On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 10:46:07 +0000, Isofarro
<spamblock@spamdetector.co.uk> wrote:

"summary" is an attribute ot <table>, but so is "title" (inherited
via coreattrs) The main point here applies equally to both of them -
if you can give a "purpose" for the table, it's reasonable to use it.

That's pretty cool. CSS certainly seems up to the job. I've just learnt the
:focus pseudo class existed too, thanks for that.

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