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by **aLPHa_LeaK** on Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:20 pm

Are you using CSS or tables for layout?
I personally am using CSS, because it has so many advantages over tables (I can't name a disadvantage right now...), such as graceful degrading eg. supporting text-only browsers and so on.

by **tashi** on Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:08 pm

Tables aren't even meant for stylish things... Neither is html in general~. I'm big on complying with standards, and not just making my pages validate, but I try to make them actually compliant, like, alt tags for images that actually say what the image is instead of blank alt tags just to get the validation. Because of that, I use CSS for my layouts and reserve tables for tabular data alone.

by **AresXP** on Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:31 pm

Tables were meant to display tabular data (sheets, etc), not as a tool to the web designer. CSS (Divs) are much easier to master and much more productive. Tables often break pages, whilst divs can overlap according to what the designer prefers Smile

My vote goes to CSS.

by **slashfoo** on Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:25 am

I voted for CSS, although I concur with what has said above, it is noteworthy that CSS allows page designers to have a homogeneous design for a lot of sites easier, this is done by using the same .css on different .*tml's.

by **TiKTaK** on Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:32 pm

CSS.
Tables are for tabular data. Is difficult to do layout with them, specially when you have to use those 1x1 spacer gifs and the table sizes doesn't look the same in all browsers.

by **aLPHa_LeaK** on Wed Sep 27, 2006 6:53 pm

I agree on all your posts, of course tables aren't meant for design. It is shocking how many sites you can still find coded with tables, though. Most sites are just so complicated, it would be a lot easier to do with CSS. The amount of code put into a little site is...bad.

by **trick** on Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:10 am

the third question on the poll wrote:Chairs ...

Just curious, was the third option their in case Steve Ballmer came around?

by **jjrohal** on Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:14 am

Counter Strike Source FTW! Actually I can't think of a disadvantage to CSS simply because you can make your webpage console browser friendly using CSS and be standards compliant.

by **trick** on Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:25 pm

jjrohal wrote:Counter Strike Source FTW! Actually I can't think of a disadvantage to CSS simply because you can make your webpage console browser friendly using CSS and be standards compliant.

There are a few disadvangages, like the fact that IE has a pretty buggy CSS implementation. However, the browsers do funny things with too many tables too and in the end the advantages of a CSS approach far outweights the problems. Tables aren't even close.

by **bwolf** on Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:34 am

CSS, I stand by it all the way.
(not much more i can say :S)

by **TomH** on Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:58 am

I have always used CSS Cool

Not found a reason not to yet.....

by **EUR1LEC** on Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:30 pm

I've always build my pages in dreamweaver and the standard there is tables!
But now i see the advantage to code in css its much easier and flexible. but right now im learning Smile

its a bit hard to get the design is want it! thats why tables is more easier right now. but you can do so much more with css. does anyone have a good css guide ?

Website · by **arn0ld** on Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:56 pm

Yeah, I know. CSS is much more flexible to handle than tables. But I think there are also times where tables can be very handy. Anyways, if you want some CSS tutorials you can try CSS Zen Garden's resources. Wink

by **Krezarian** on Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:33 pm

CSS is of course way better!

by **DjDarkman** on Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:53 pm

My site is designed by tables ,works on any descent browser ,the problem with css is that not all browsers support it correctly ,altough it`s supposed to be a standard ,here take a peak and tell me if anything is wrong whit it http://djdarkman.extra.hu/ I want to set this as an example to "making good webpages without CSS isn`t impossible" ,ohh btw I use an iframe too.

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