Tables and div's are just containers for other tags. As such, they are the building blocks for your web page. CSS helps you use them as needed. What you choose as the basis for your layout is up to you.
I know I didn't tell you anything you didn't know. My point is that CSS already offers enough for you to create anything you might need in terms of laying out the page.
After all, what's wrong with the hybrid layout technique we discussed?
>Actually that site doesn't have any examples that show columns with equal
>heights - and thus lies the problem.
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>Just to be clear I'm actually quite good at CSS - been doing it for years
>and my designs have been featured in a couple of CSS books (early books to
>be sure, but actual-factual books nonetheless). I know this stuff well.
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>There are work-arounds available (although there are none that I personally
>like): my point is that the issue should not require a workaround. The
>replacement for table-based layout should, at least, do everything table
>based layout does! Preferably easier and more clearly.
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>Jim Davis
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>>Every time I get into this it amazes me that CSS made it so damn difficult
>>to do one of the most common layouts online: a full-width header, two
>>equal-height (despite content) columns (one for navigation and one for
>>content), and a full-width footer. In other words, this:
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>Lots of great examples here:
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>http://glish.com/css/
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