Good article on mimicking tables with CSS here.

I actually pulled the article from here. The comments in both articles are pretty enlightening.

What are the benefits of this to using divs and positioning? A time-saver?

What exactly was wrong with the <table> tag, anyway? Why is everyone so against it?

As the article suggests, such a scheme is much easier to create, understand, and maintain.

FINALLY. SUPPORT FOR TABLES :O i'm glad 'cause i'm such a table coder ;x </rebelliousness>


it's been a long fought war between table and table-less design coding. imo, it's just about preferences, but there are people out there that will argue to the death the technical advantages of divs over tables (enter the web 2.0 trend).

i do love tables though. i think it makes the coding more organized and structured, tabular data or not.


if you're just going to put one thing, let's say an image, in a particular spot on a page, then yes, div positioning is way easier, as it only takes a couple lines of coding to position the image just right.

i think people in that article are most concerned about --as are most "table coders"-- the three column layout, which is pretty annoying to do using divs with unordered lists and floats.

this is really quite useful, thanks

By web standards using tables to create a layout is the wrong way to use tables; tables were meant to store data like a spreadsheet.

i agree

Awesome info maybe I'll try it sometime

But if it works, then why should it matter if it's "wrong" or "right"?

o_O I don't know, I just can't see anything as "wrong" in coding if it serves whatever purpose you're using it for and it doesn't cause any problems.