So I was trying to work out a CSS version of some information that was previously formatted in a table. This CSS formatted list is what I came up with so far. [Ed note—Although coded using fixed widths, it can be modified to be variable width. And don’t think we don’t know how to do it!]

The CSS works in all my Win browsers (IE, Moz, Op, Fb, NN4.x excluded), which means it probably fails miserably on Mac. I had originally coded the CSS slightly differently, but it failed in IE5.5, so a couple of tweaks and boom one more browser nobody uses anymore.

It doesn’t look like much less code to me than the table version, but I do think it’s more semantic, has more going for it from an accessibility standpoint, and I hope y’all can make some use of it.

Update! So I re-checked the page in Opera on my home PC and everything looked fine. It’s virtually identical to my work PC as far as OS and browser versions, so I can’t understand why I saw a difference at work.

In any case, I didn’t update the page, so by way of compensation I added the variable width version. [ed—Like that was hard!] I wouldn’t necessarily say that it stays crispy in milk, but it’s good down to a width of about 400px.

Update 2! It turns out that my work PC had Opera v7.11 installed, while my home PC had v7.03. Opera 7.11 showed a little glitch in the presentation, but an upgrade to 7.20 fixed it. Yay for Opera, and yay for my browser addled brain.