help with CSS

i sat down tonight and did that webmonkey tutorial. i think i get the idea, but i have a few questions for ye, I can smell IQ and TechMouse on this one ;)

HTML tags... im not too sure where to apply the STYLES. take an image for eg. i used to have my whole page in a table, then any images or text fields that i want to move etcc, they would be in their own layer.

so now when i instert an image, to i do it on the straight page and if so which html tag do i assign the STYLE to? to the <tr> or <td>? cant remember which comes up!

the thing i dont know exactly what all the html tags are..... (coz i used to make pages the lazy way)

i have another Qs. but ill leave it till i sort this. i hope im making sense coz my internet isnt workin and im talking off the top of my head in my mates gaff.

any help would be great, even if theres a work around for what i want to do... im comfortable with the CSS commands, its just assigning appropriately is my boggle.

Thanks yall

ive figured out that you can make CSS classes to control seperate elements. are most images controlled with a simple <div>?
ie:

<div class = "header"> ... where i already have ---- .header {position: absoulte; left: 15%; right;15% } etc....

im used to controlling an image, in a layer, in a table. should i scrap my old way? it just makes images easy to drag around. but i fear that ill have to start controlling the <td>'s etc... because i cant control the header if its in a layer/table. Or can I?. :scratch:

tis all gettin me confused!!!
i really just want to be able to make the CSS template so it will be consistant throughout my site, ye know.. banner will always go to middle-top, the menu images will all sit under the banner nicely etc etc.....

wot yis fink?

scrap the tables altogether - css should make them redundant, although you will have to go through a lot of trial and error before you get to grips with it fully

in terms of lcss layouts, thi site is very useful - http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/

It would probably be benificial to get to grips with php aswell. It will save you a lot of time in the long run..

Hmmm...

in the CSS file you should be applying the style to "div.header" rather than just ".header" otherwise it will affect everything which has a class of header, rather than just DIVs.

I never use DIVs myself - is that strange?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by IQ

It would probably be benificial to get to grips with php aswell. It will save you a lot of time in the long run..

---

i dappled in php a year or 2 ago. is this necessary for the templates that im trying to make?

if i can make the first template, and it covers the majority of elements, then i wont have to change it much for any otherl sites that i start.

you can see here: http://www.dublinpokernights.com

this is pretty much the same as most of my sites.... header: top-center, 5x menu buttons underneath, maybe a side border, saome text and images..the live site doesnt have the CSS in it yet, im still developing it. i used those percentages that you mentioned a while back IQ, to align the header.seems to work....thanks.

thanks for the info too people!! :clap:

just a quicky/quiche

how do i get rid of a bottom margin... i could do it for the top but dunno for the bottom.

see the bottom of the page here:

http://www.dublinpokernights.com/events.htm