Re: Tables Vs Divs
Re: Tables Vs Divs
- Subject: Re: Tables Vs Divs
- From: Florijan Stamenkovic <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:30:48 -0400
On May 19, 2008, at 23:45, Don Lindsay wrote:
hello;
People actually create their entire page layout using tables? That
would be a nightmare,
Kinda, but so is trying to make your perfectly valid CSS based layout
render as it should on IE. Makes table layouts tempting at times,
even nowadays.
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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