Posted by Ben C on 11/03/07 22:23

On 2007-11-03, 1001 Webs <1001webs@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2:50 pm, "rf" <r...@invalid.com> wrote:
>> "1001 Webs" <1001w...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1194096944.823077.155460@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> > Every respected Web-authoring Guru says that.
>> > This is the era of table-less design, CSS code, XHTML compliant
>> > websites.
>> > Separate layout from content.
>>
>> > There's no reason to use tables any more.
>> > Everything can be done with CSS.
>> > Tables are so 2002ish ...
>>
>> > Do you agree with that?
>> > I don't.
>> > I've run into many situations where I just couldn't achieve the
>> > desired effect in different browsers without using tables.
>>
>> Sometimes the only way is to use a table. Sometimes. Only sometimes and only
>> for a very small part of a page.
>>
>> One of those times is, of course, if one is offering up tabular data, which
>> point you seem to have missed.
> Tabular data cannot be displayed with CSS?

Of course it can, and the default styles for <table>, <tr>, <td> etc.
will usually give you a good layout for your tabular data.

You can also use CSS to do tabular layouts of non-tabular data.

You can separate layout from content to your heart's content, and layout
your elements with display: table, display: table-row, display:
table-cell, etc., if you require table-layout behaviour, whether the
content is tabular or not.

It just isn't supported in the current version of IE. That's a
completely different issue though.

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