title: Why is using DIVs or spans tags "better" than using a table layout?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/83073/why-not-use-tables-for-layout-in-html">Why not use tables for layout in HTML?</a>  </p>
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  <p>Why is using markup with divs defining everything (container, header, content, etc) BETTER than using tables? I understand that when you build your page using tables it: look ugly as hell, look even UGLIER when nested, because of the higher volume of bullshit - slightly higher page load time, and less readable code.</p>
  
  <p>BUT. Using tables is so easy and saves SO much time in trying to accomplish what would seem to be an easy thing, but with the caveat of making it work across <em>all browsers</em>.</p>
  
  <p>What I'm asking is, wouldn't a somewhat complex layout (or any layout that wouldn't normally be easy to accomplish with just divs and css) be best solved with a mix of tables and css with some divs wrapping needed elements (to deal with the nestedness) so you can rapidly develop your application and NOT worry about it looking like crap on unsupported browsers ?</p>
  
  <p><strong>* !EDIT! *</strong> I also agree completely that yes, tables are for tabular data, and just on semantics I feel I should be using do-nothing tags, then naming them and styling them, but for ME, I swear so many times to quickly just build something fast, using tables BEATS trying to style it perfectly to work on ALL browsers.</p>