Now I know the word table in the design world is almost blasphemous (lol), but it seems that whereas a table will expand/contract with the content so the page still renders nicely a div will not and force you to have to manually resize it to get a nice page. Am I correct or is ti something I am missing?
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Jump to PostWRONG!
Table is not blasphemous, except with some idiots who don't understand what the W3C really wants people to avoid.
The things the W3C wants to remove are:
1. The use of tables to create margins, borders, and padding effects. Before CSS, table was the only way …
Jump to PostI am of the belief that you should always have a tableless design. By this I mean that the actual layout of the design itself should be tableless ... Tables can be used for tabular content within the page but shouldn't be used to structure the layout.
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