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Question

I converted my company's calendar to XSL and changed all the tables to divs. It worked pretty well, but I had a lot of 8 day week bugs to work out initially owing to precarious cross-browser spacing issues. But I was reading another post regarding when to use tables v. divs and the consensus seemed to be that you should only use divs for true divisions between parts of the webpage, and only use tables for tabular data.

I'm not sure I could even have used tables with XSL but I wanted to follow up that discussion of Divs and Tables with a discussion of the ideal way to make a web calendars and maybe a union of the two.

Answer 1

Just came across this thread after posing the same question elsewhere. While I completely agree a calendar is more of a tabular representation of data, I think there's truth in the prolific "it depends" answers. For example, I want to show a floating DIV popup when each day in the calendar is moused over. Using a table, the popup flickers as the cursor moves across the calendar since the popup is only active on the cell border and the day number in the cell itself. Using DIVs, the popup is solid (no flicker) the entire time the cursor mouses over the calendar cell.

Answer 2

You might also consider an ordered list (weeks) of ordered lists (days), or simply one ordered list (days).

There are others who agree that the list approach is a good one.

Others prefer tables.