Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 12/16/56 11:58

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?

Tables are for .. tabular data. A quick Google turns up a couple
thousand times this has been discussed. Here's one:

<http://groups.google.com/group/alt.html/browse_thread/thread/a9fa57c1f35eeac1/45bce92624068442?lnk=st&q=tables+vs+css+for+layout&rnum=7#45bce92624068442>

Main reason: separate content from presentation.

> And why is fixed width layout so bad?

What is the width of my browser window?

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