Re: Tables Vs Divs
Re: Tables Vs Divs
- Subject: Re: Tables Vs Divs
- From: Don Lindsay <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:45:31 -0400
hello;
People actually create their entire page layout using tables? That
would be a nightmare, althought I guess I can see it if the
application was created for IE 3, which really did not have a way to
position elements well.
Don
On May 19, 2008, at 11:42 PM, David LeBer wrote:
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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