Re: What is the recomended method for Laying out HTML forms?

Owen Brunker wrote:

DIVs decidedly makes life easier in most layouts. But laying out forms is
still time consuming.

When trying to do it with divs and floats, yes.

What are others doing in this area?

For forms, I use tables.

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