What Are the Layout Limitations of HTML?
Good question. HTML is not as flexible as are the tools of the printing trade. This is because HTML documents must be viewable by all sorts of different computers using different operating systems, browser software, and graphic display capabilities. Positioning elements such as graphics and blocks of text is easy in printed art. In HTML, there are substantial limits to what can be done simply. Basic text can be aligned left or right, or centered in the page. Graphics can be put above or below text, or set so that the graphic goes to the extreme left or right of the page with the text wrapped around it. Other alignments require putting the graphics and text inside the cells of a table. You can specify that the table cells be invisible on the finished page. The FAQ definition and graphics at the top of this page was handled that way. Invisible tables allow the HTML designer much more freedom in making sharp looking pages for you, but we do have to charge for the work of creating them. Of
