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ctm92 | 3 months ago

Recently had to grab content from a page that was layouted with tables. Just nested tables over tables, not even ids for the elements.

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sethaurus|3 months ago

I invite you to view the source of the very page we're on right now.

znort_|3 months ago

thanks for this, you made my day! i never bothered to look.

i still remember when tables were forced out of fashion by hordes of angry div believers! they became anathema and instantly made you a pariah. the arguments were very passionate but never made any sense to me: the preaching was separating structure from presentation, mostly to enable semantics, and then semantics became all swamped with presentation so you could get those damned divs aligned in a sensible way :-)

just don't use (or abuse) them for layout but tables still seem to me the most straightforward way to render, well, tabular content.