| What's so bad about using tables?Difficult and | | | | makes templating easierSearch engine friendly - since |
| annoying to change styles.Positioning is difficult.Not | | | | code and content are a bit separate from each other |
| Search Engine Friendly.Cannot transform the page to | | | | when using css, it might be considered SE friendly |
| other markup languages easily.Tables are slower in | | | | some drawbacks of using css layersTables are easy |
| loading.They are not flexible or free flowing on | | | | to use for beginners. Although CSS is not that tough |
| screen unlike layers.Whats so good about CSS and | | | | to learn and use. Its very advanced and very often |
| Layers ?Ease of use - css is far easier to learn and | | | | developers dont make the best use of CSS.Table |
| use rather than tables which have a complicated | | | | Postitions are easy to control in a webpage.Although |
| structure like.Highly flexible layouts possible - css | | | | CSS can be used to control table positions, tables are |
| layouts are known for their flexibility. you can make | | | | still regarded as a easy and fast way of putting up |
| the columns rows adjust as per the users screen | | | | content online.Tables preserve formatting even when |
| resolutionPositioning is so powerful - layouts which | | | | the text or data is copied on to a word processing |
| were thought highly complex with native html are a | | | | application |
| breeze with css. You can position layers both | | | | The conclusionToday's Webdeveloper/Designer cant |
| relatively and absolutelyLeast load time -lesser html | | | | avoid css anymore due to growing demand for |
| tag elements mean lesser load times. tables have | | | | accessibility.So my advice would be to make the best |
| table td tr tags whereas in css only div tags are main | | | | use of CSS wherever its apt and use tables only in |
| playersTemplating is made easy - you can have | | | | areas where CSS layers cannot do the jobVarun |
| different templates stored in different css style | | | | Krishnan is a mobile phone/web enthusiast. He is a |
| sheets. Load the stylesheet as per template. This | | | | web developer and SEO consultant. |