On-topic: HTML/JS help please

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 05:15:25PM +0000, Simon Wistow wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:04:01AM +0000, Piers Cawley said:
> > That sounds to me like you don't have a table. You have a tree with
> > tabular data at each node. Consider using nested divs to represent
> > your hierarchy and then either cunning styling or one row tables to
> > display the tabular data. Sure the page might get a bit big, but
> > that's what gzipped responses are for.
> Or, alternatively, a series of, potentially nested <ul> elements with 
> either a <div><span</span><span></span>...</div> at the nodes or a 
> single row table.

Trouble is, I know of no way to get divs and spans to line up properly
without knowing in advance how wide, for example, the largest entry in a
column will be when displayed.

<table> and friends just Do The Right Thing.

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