treating fieldsets as divs?

[freelance84]

I'm just redesigning a layout using table to divs with CSS.

 

One key feature to a certain section is that the content must be contained within a fieldset.

 

Can I go ahead and treat the fieldset as a div with respect to positioning or should i put a div within the fieldset and go from there?

 

(The only reason i ask is that i have had a few issues in the past with fieldset and legends. I don't want to plunge into the redesign if fieldsets have certain quirks in some browsers)

[Omirion]

w3s says there should be no problem.

 

But if you CAN do it with a div, i'd suggest going that way.

[freelance84]

Cheers,

 

for now I'm going to leave the fieldsets in place. Just wondered if anyone knew of any problems, little quirky things.

 

Cheers though 

[haku]

If you have a fixed width and either margins or paddings for the fieldset, it's always better to wrap it in a div, applying the fixed with to the wrapping div, and the paddings/margins to the contained fieldset. This gives you cross-browser compatibility with IE.