table within table using CSS

liunx

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I am trying to accompish with CSS what I used to accomplish with HTML nested tables. Basically it is a simple one column, two row table with a header row and body row. Last night was my first experience with CSS so bear with me.

My test run is located at: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.suspendedmoment.com/css/test.html">http://www.suspendedmoment.com/css/test.html</a><!-- m -->

The CSS file is located at: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.suspendedmoment.com/css/test.css">http://www.suspendedmoment.com/css/test.css</a><!-- m -->

Is this the proper way to achieve the same effect? I noticed that if you nest a DIV tag within a DIV tag that the nested DIV is placed one pixel below and one pixel to the right of the DIV its contained within. Therefore I set the postion to top:-1 and right:-1. Then I added padding of 5px which shifted it again so i changed it to top:-6 and right:-6. Finally the padding made the outter DIV stretch to 160 pixels so I had to make the inner DIV 160 pixels. Is this all making sense? Am I doing this the hard way or is the considered the correct way, if there is one?

Thanks for your input...

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