Layout Without Tables

Layout by Position

Internet Explorer Version Opera Version

Using the position properties in designing layouts without tables
encounters some problems. Browsers like Netscape, Mozilla and Opera
are W3C standards compliant. These browsers will dispay the style
effects as prescribed by the standards. Internet Explorer (IE), on the
other hand, is not yet compliant with some CSS standards. IE will interpret
position properties differently then compliant browsers. The result is
webmasters must use hack code to manipulate IE to approach compliant
property display.

I made these web pages with IE version 6. However, I noticed the pages
did not flow properly in Opera. The next web page, "Layout Without Tables"
has two versions. One for viewing in IE 6, and the other for viewing
in a standards compliant browser like Opera.

My next step in learning CSS is to write web pages for compliant browsers,
but add special code that manipulates IE into acting similar to compliant
browsers. In this manner all browsers will view the same layout design.