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Originally Posted by Ricky2443 (Post 588060)

Ok, so your wrong. There is nothing wrong with using tables in a web site. Actually they are actually a very powerful tool in laying out your site. When used in unison with CSS ( you can combine the two ) they can display data in very creative AND SIMPLE TO MANAGE ways. Instead of messing around with a DIV within a DIV within a DIV and their float values and margins you have one table and that it. And as far as what people call accessibility, it makes no difference if you are using pure tables, pure CSS, or both, they will all validate if you code them right, and you should code them right. So in conclusion, you just got based, that is all.

actually, you're terribly wrong here.

1. the w3c explicitly states in the xhtml definition that tables should not be used for layout.
2. tables render screen readers useless, and make your site a pain in the butt for blind people to read. they will hear something like 'table with three columns and two rows. table with two columns and five rows. link. graphic. new row. graphic 'header'. ....
3. tables are meant to be used for tabular data like spreadsheets, timetables, and calendars.
4. table based websites take far longer to change than css-based websites because they are so rigidly structured.
5. you show absolutely no skill at web design if you have to use tables for your layout, and then argue that tables are meant to do that. thats like using framesets to design your site, totally last decade. You can achieve all of that with css.