Unless you’re the sort of person who favors very basic web pages, with most elements sitting
underneath each other, you’ll need to employ some kind of layout technology when designing your web pages. Historically, web designers tended to use tables for doing this,
combined with invisible GIFs (sometimes called spacers or shims) to stretch table cells to
the required size. In the early 2000s, CSS layouts gained a foothold, and now more and
more designers are moving toward CSS as a means of page layout.
With few exceptions, pretty much everything you can do with a table can be done faster,
better, and with a greater emphasis on accessibility when using CSS. With content and
design separated, it’s much easier to tweak or rework a website, because you’re editing an
external document that controls spacing and positioning, rather than messing around with
complex tables. We discuss one of CSS’s major benefits in this regard, how it encourages
logical element placement, in the next section. Tables should really be reserved for their
original purpose: formatting tabular data.
underneath each other, you’ll need to employ some kind of layout technology when designing your web pages. Historically, web designers tended to use tables for doing this,
combined with invisible GIFs (sometimes called spacers or shims) to stretch table cells to
the required size. In the early 2000s, CSS layouts gained a foothold, and now more and
more designers are moving toward CSS as a means of page layout.
With few exceptions, pretty much everything you can do with a table can be done faster,
better, and with a greater emphasis on accessibility when using CSS. With content and
design separated, it’s much easier to tweak or rework a website, because you’re editing an
external document that controls spacing and positioning, rather than messing around with
complex tables. We discuss one of CSS’s major benefits in this regard, how it encourages
logical element placement, in the next section. Tables should really be reserved for their
original purpose: formatting tabular data.
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