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DIV-based CSS tables deserve more usage than they receive Microsoft s web browser doesn t support them which may explain why they re not more popular. That looks set to change with IE 8 however. To help you keep up with the times this four-part article series shows you how to build CSS tables. This second part of the series demonstrates how to use CSS tables to build a typical three-column web page....

In this second part of a five-part series on producing web page dialog boxes you ll learn how to set the text in the status bar of a window control the size and position of a dialog box and more. We ll also touch on the content of the dialog box and how to make it carry out specific tasks when it closes....

In this conclusion to a six-part series on the decorator pattern we re going to put what we ve learned to work on a more realistic example than the ones we ve covered up until now a web site for a hybrid car dealership. This article is excerpted from chapter four of em ActionScript 3. Design Patterns Object Oriented Programming Techniques em written by William B. Sanders and Chandima Cumaranatunge O Reilly 2 7 ISBN 596528469 . Copyright 2 7 O Reilly Media Inc. All rights...

In the last few years divs have became very popular with many web designers particularly when it comes to building the layout of the many different pages that comprise a web site. And certainly this table-less approach has proven to be quite successful over time. It permits developers to create both liquid and fixed designs with relative ease by using a standard methodology. Unfortunately one aspect of the approach can cause web pages to display in very different ways on different...

These days many web-based applications are trying to look more like desktop applications. To a limited extent it works -- until you come to dialog boxes. A desktop application s dialog box works one way and the dialog boxes you can get from an opened web page work another way they do not provide the same functions. Fortunately there s a way to change this. This first part of a five-part article series gets you on your way....