Re: [ALUG] HTML question - any way to do this other than using tables?

On 01 Nov 15:24, Chris Green wrote:

I know HTML isn't strictly linux, but still it's related isn't it and there are lots of clever and helpful people here.

I want to lay out some web pages in the following sort of fashion:-

Top of Page Heading

Sub-heading
    C1 Data         C2 Data         C3 Data
    More C1 data    More C2 data    More C3 data

Sub-heading
    C1 Data         C2 Data         C3 Data
    More data       More data       More data
    and more        etc             etc

Sub-heading
    Etc.            Etc.            Etc

I want all of the columns under the sub-headings to be the same widths so they're aligned all the way down (i.e. the same column widths under all of the sub-headings).

Using tables one could either set all the column widths explicitly (but very difficult to make it work at different resolutions then) or one could make the sub-headings a column span and just make the text bold (so as a result it's all one table).

Is there any other way that would be less painful? I suppose using the column spanning method isn't too awful but it's a really pity that HTML has no other way of putting text in columns.

Note that the columns are not all the same width as I have shown above.

So, something like: http://miranda.sommitrealweird.co.uk/~brettp/temp/chrisg-3col/

Then?