[Pro] Fundamental question... ?

Can i build a successful site, switching between CSS layout and table-based layout? Eg, on home page want to use layers for a page sequence action + a graphic action etc, but also want to build some decent rollovers ie in table-based layout. Can you switch between the two on the same page safely?
Thankyou, Jerry


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Well, depends what you mean by “safely”. I’ve done both on the same page with no problems.

Keep in mid that CSS layers will go OVER other CSS layers and tables. Tables, or individually placed html boxes (not layered) push each other out of the way, so to speak.

I would just be mindful of what you expect the page to look like before you begin. And it’s a bit of a pain if you’ve used a CSS layout then change your mind, or vice versa. Things will get relayered and mess up the layout.

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Thanks Bob, will crack on with both. J


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You can can build some pretty decent rollovers with css sprites. It not just for navigation but you can use it wherever you need a rollover. Take a look at Walters tutorial Home

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Sometime around 18/9/09 (at 09:39 -0400) Rusty Nail said:

Can i build a successful site, switching between CSS layout and
table-based layout? Eg, on home page want to use layers for a page
sequence action + a graphic action etc, but also want to build some
decent rollovers ie in table-based layout. Can you switch between
the two on the same page safely?

Yes, absolutely. As already noted, layered content can be stacked up
together, while unlayered content (other than graphics, which merge)
can’t. Also, layered content can’t be sent behind non-layered content.

If you want to change a layered item to be unlayered or vice versa
simply select it and click that Layered checkbox in the Inspector
palette. The only kind of things you’ll have to watch for are things
dropping behind layered items when turned to unlayered, and graphics
no longer automatically merging with others when switched to being
layered.

Oh - you don’t have to have your rollover button graphics be
unlayered if you don’t want to. What you DO have to do instead,
however, is group them together, or they won’t see each other and do
their rollover switching magic.
I find it best in these cases to stack 'em up, group 'em, then apply
the rollover action to the group - meaning the new container
graphic - rather than directly to one of the button graphics.

k


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