Jason Das wrote: > After years of css+standards+"tables must die"purity I started using > tables again for certain specific layout issues. > > I tend to favor less code. So if I can do something instantly with a > table that would take many extra lines of containing blocks and css, > (not to mention extra math and numbers), I'll use a table. > > if nothing else, tables are certainly the cleanest way to achieve > flexibly sized, equal-height columns. (This almost never comes up > when I'm designing the site myself, but a lot of my work is coding > other designers' mockups.) > > My tables are always clean and discrete with as few elements as > possible (and often only one row). They're surrounded by and filled > up with semantic markup. > > I'm really glad I learned to do without tables. I'm also glad that I > learned not to be afraid of them, when they really are a practical > solution.
Biggest advantage of tables is still the fact the it's the only way you can achieve a multicolumn layout *when CSS is disabled*. -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
