Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design

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11. Positioning a Better Design

Like tables, there is another highly limiting structure that’s composed of rows and cells: a prison. It’s time for designers to break out.

—ERIC A. MEYER

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WE’VE BEEN USING TABLES for years now, warping them into ever more complicated arrangements just to get interesting visual effects. The classic approach of nesting tables within tables and slicing ...

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