[Templates] OT: Rounded box containers

[Jeff Anderson]

Warning: jeffa is going off-topic ...

--- "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
wrote:
> And remember that you can use a 404-handler as
> a poor-man's caching
> system.  I illustrate one possible strategy at
>
<http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col47.html>.

Gotta love these columns. :) Upon reading this
one, i nearly spat my coffee out when i saw that
Merlyn was making those aesthetically pleasing
yet aggrevatingly pleading rounded boxes.

Recently, my client tasked me with taking someone
else's graphic design and translating it into
HTML, rounded boxes included. Well, these days i
am trying to be more "div taggish", and less
reliant upon those old fashioned HTML tables -
BUT .... this is one case study where i found
trying to create a rounded box container is
better suited for those old table tags, AND NOT
div tags.

I did a lot of Google searching for techniques
that used div tags, and the results were always
either VERY complicated, or somewhat simple yet
completely browser incompliant.

I am going to state for the record that i believe
table tags are still the best way to created a
simple yet elegant rounded box container. I plan
on putting my thesis and such down in
writing/tutorial (complete with how to create the
graphics), but in the meantime, you can see my
solution to the problem over at:

http://unlocalhost.com/css_box/

just view the source. The beauty of using CSS on
empty table cells is that the images will not
appear if CSS is turned off. I am sure that you
TT folk can see how easy it is to abstract this
into a WRAPPER. :)

Hope this helps someone,
jeffa

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