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div Vs table in web designing
Why tables for layout is stupid?
Tables existed in HTML for one reason: To display tabular data. But then border="0" made it possible for designers to have a grid upon which to lay out images and text. Still the most dominant means of designing visually rich Web sites, the use of tables is now actually interfering with building a better, more accessible, flexible, and functional Web. Find out where the problems stem from, and learn solutions to create transitional or completely table-less layout.We'll give you an introduction to a way of working that will
- make your pages load faster
- lower your hosting costs
- make your redesigns more efficient and less expensive
- help you maintain visual consistency throughout your sites
- get you better search engine results
- make your sites more accessible to all viewers and user agents
- and give you a competitive edge (that is, job security) as more of the world moves to using Web standards.
We'll also talk about how laying out pages with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) requires a slightly different way of thinking about your content and your markup than you may be used to.
The problem with using tables:
- mixes presentational data in with your content.
- This makes the file sizes of your pages unnecessarily large, as users must download this presentational data for each page they visit.
- Bandwidth ain't free.
- This makes redesigns of existing sites and content extremely labor intensive (and expensive).
- It also makes it extremely hard (and expensive) to maintain visual consistency throughout a site.
- Table-based pages are also much less accessible to users with disabilities and viewers using cell phones and PDAs to access the Web.
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