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Posted by Chris on 10/06/70 11:58
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>
>> I've already read several times that CSS should be used instead of
>> tables to layout your pages. But why is that actually?
>
> Were there reasons given where you read that? What did they say?
>
No reasons given, that's why I wonder. Also, styling a fixed width and/or
table layout is a lot easier. I try to use only DIV's according to the
recommendations, but I would just like to know why I am doing all the extra
effort.
> Tables are for .. tabular data. A quick Google turns up a couple
> thousand times this has been discussed. Here's one:
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>
<http://groups.google.com/group/alt.html/browse_thread/thread/a9fa57c1f35eeac1/45bce92624068442?lnk=st&q=tables+vs+css+for+layout&rnum=7#45bce92624068442>
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> Main reason: separate content from presentation.
>
The fact that it has a couple of thousand times been discussed must show
that it's not clear to many people. Also I see many websites still make use
of table layouts and they don't look bad at all.
The main reason that you state is not clear to me. If I use a table for
layout, then to me that's part of the presentation. I can even style the
table with CSS in my stylesheet.
>> And why is fixed width layout so bad?
>
> What is the width of my browser window?
>
the max size of your browser window is at least 1024px
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