Forums tables or divs or sections.

[Cabbit]

Hey folks my latest wee dabble into rails is making a forum and it is now fully functional if rather spartan.

So heres the ickky design question. Do i use sections, divs, tables, or magic to style a forum these days?

 

[NoNameBrand]

So heres the ickky design question. Do i use sections, divs, tables, or magic to style a forum these days?

I'd say divs. It's not tabular data, so don't put it in a table.

 

[angelwatt]

I haven't experimented with how section tags (HTML5) display on browsers that don't recognize it. Either way, it's probably not the best option from a semantics point of view. I think a table would be OK for listing threads since there are distinct rows and columns, but not so much for a single thread page where you can use div tags ver easily.

 

[Cabbit]

Aye i was thinking that the listings of topics was suitable for as a table and the posts would be divs though i looked though a HTML5 demo site that seems to degrade well. Which uses sections though i think a lot of it is fixed with javascript.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/04/designing-a-html-5-layout-from-scratch/