Re: Tables Vs Divs
Re: Tables Vs Divs
- Subject: Re: Tables Vs Divs
- From: David LeBer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:42:11 -0400
On 19-May-08, at 11:31 PM, John Huss wrote:
The thing to avoid is using tables for EVERYTHING, which used to be
popular. In fact, I just took over an application that did this -
everything was a table, everywhere. In general, avoid tables for
layout where possible and only use them to display data, like query
results, or reports.
John
I concur.
Using tables for page layout is bad. It robs you of flexibility, bulks
up your page, and complicates your markup.
However, using tables for tabular data is perfectly acceptable. When
data has a natural association with a table row or column there is
absolutely no reason not to use tables to display it.
So divs and spans and css for layout. Tables and css for tabular data.
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Don Lindsay <email@hidden> wrote:
I am just curious, I have hard many people talk about how tables are
bad. That you should use Div's and spans to show tabular data. I
written applications both ways and it appears that divs/spans for
tabular data displays a bit faster, but tables are easier to line up
and format data.
What has been y'alls experience with this?
;david
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