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When you use tables for content layout you end up breaking up information by what it'll look like on the screen instead of how it logically goes together. XHTML still has table tags because they're what should be used for tabulated data. You can apply styles to these tags just like any other.

Alfred

Joe Pluta wrote:

Just be careful when you start going to the "brave new world" of web design.
I always mention this particular topic up when I speak about web design:
there is a religious war out there about "Tables" vs. "No Tables", and it
really is purely a philosophical issue.

Using DIVs is particularly graceful in online magazines and blogs where long
sections of text need to be nicely formatted regardless of the browser size.
Tables, on the other hand, tend to force the browser into a fairly specific
layout, but that's typically okay with most business users; they LIKE
knowing where the A/R aging information is on the customer screen.

So, tables are nearly always fine for business uses, and as you are finding,
they're probably easier to use and definitely more likely to be consistent
across browsers.  The DIV technique is very nice when you want a "glossy"
presentation, but it takes more work and, in my experience, a little more
know-how than I have the time to invest.

I'm willing to bet that, if you learn the DIV technique really well and
decide it's the best way to go, that you won't have a ton of trouble
reworking your tables into DIVs later.  And until then, KISS reigns supreme
<grin>.

Joe



From: Mike

I guess I am just trying to learn "Web 2.0"... but probably biting off
more
than I can chew. Eh... I will move that table to a table. I KNOW how to
work
with those.



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