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Using Tables for styling purposes is deprecated since css became a web standard. So my vote goes for css.

trick wrote:

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

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

no, i.e. Gates
(I went for CSS btw =)) )

just as a side note... CSS and tables don't exclude each other. The question is rather:
DIV or TABLE

tables ftw. i'm too lazy to learn how to use css, and already know how to use tables to the same effect. disadvantage with css: specific structuring. if you screw something up somewhere, it doesn't display properly. and tables are easy. well, at least.. if you don't write them by hand. that's just dumb. for layout purposes, use a wysiwyg editor. it makes life easy.

I never really got how to make an CSS layout, all my attempts just failed. The page designs I make are fairly simple, so I make them with tables (for the layout), and all styles are done with CSS. Good enough for me, and it's not really that messy to manage.

CSS needs to be more easier for layout...

Creating a style with CSS is really not that easy, especially because you can assume that you will have to write some extra lines for Internet Explorer from Microsoft. This however isn't that difficult to accomplish and you don't even need JavaScript for it. Also I want to add, that there are issues which advise or even require to use tables. I talk here about table content. There is no point in fitting table content in some div boxes. You would really run into difficulties to simulate table behavior . So if your content has rows and collumns and not just a site head, nav bar, body and footer, there is nothing to talk bad about tables ^-^. However, if you just want to have 2 boxes next to each other, there tables will just be slower and make code unneccessary complex.

Here an example to show how much simplier <div> can be:

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      <div style="border: 1px solid red; float: left;">Box 1</div>
      <div style="border: 1px solid red; float: left;">Box 2</div>
      <table style="clear: left" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
         <tr>
            <td style="border: 1px solid red;">Box 1</td>
            <td style="border: 1px solid red;">Box 2</td>
         </tr>
      </table>

i'm using CSS, tables, divs ;o. mix...

CSS Personally, I've always liked the way it works.