Introduction
Print designers
use grids to create compelling layouts. Using such a structure makes
it easy to place elements into all sorts of layouts, from the front
page of a newspaper to a movie poster to the cover of this book. It
also makes the designs visually more appealing.
When print designers began gravitating toward the Web, they found the
lack of structure frustrating. At most, designers initially could
only float images to the left or right until Netscape invented the
center tag. In fact, it wasn't
until HTML tables were used as grids that the web-design industry
took off. Even still, available tools had their limitations and as
such designers overused tables to structure entire web pages.
With CSS-enabled designs, web developers learned they could forego
the practice of manipulating tables to hold designs. However, they
also learned that styling tabular data, such as a calendar, could
still be challenging.
This chapter teaches you how to make your tables look better by
stylizing table headers, setting borders for a table and for its
cells, and reducing gaps with images in table cells. The sample
design at the end of the chapter takes you through the steps required
to stylize a calendar.
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