Originally Posted by
Chip
Rick, agreed its all about CSS these days rather than tables, but im not sure thats a good thing, tables are a VERY robust way of laying out a page that will work in every browser out there, even mobile devices (unless you are talking ie3 and before
) so if you only have a fairly basic design, I see nothing wrong with using tables to achieve it.
I believe that thanks to the DIV the table can now take a back seat and be used for organising data i.e. facts and figures within a DIV rather than using it for layout purposes.
As I'm sure you are more than aware anyway DIVS make it alot easier for us to change a page layout without actually editing lots of HTML so thats why I'm more pro to DIVS and con to TABLES.
Obviously with browsers intepreting elements in different ways it can take abit of fiddling to ensure it looks the same throughout all platforms but it isn't too much of a hassle.
I guess I'm just a tart and feel tables are rather old hat nowdays. They still have their place, just like old people.