Possibly one of the most eye-catching, and alarmingly, titled articles I have seen in a while, Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong, a primer in the execution and use of CSS tables, by Rachel Andrew at Digital Web Magazine.
CSS tables solve all the problems encountered when using absolute positioning or floats to create multi-column layouts in modern browsers. Specifying the value table for the display property of an element allows you to display the element and its descendants as though they’re table elements. The main benefit of CSS table-based layouts is the ability to easily define the boundaries of a cell so that we can add backgrounds and so on to it – without the semantic problems of marking up non-tabular content as a HTML table in the document.
Comments are closed. Please send a message if you want though.