Div or Table?

[AFB]

I'm making a website with a layout similar to this

http://www.acm.cse.msu.edu/


It's a pretty popular layout, and I was wondering whether it is better to use Div's in CSS ot Tables in your opinion?

Pros, Cons?

 

[Czar]

div

tables are only meant for tabular data now

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy
I'm making a website with a layout similar to this

http://www.acm.cse.msu.edu/


It's a pretty popular layout, and I was wondering whether it is better to use Div's in CSS ot Tables in your opinion?

Pros, Cons?

Tables are dying/dead... go with CSS when you can, IMO.

 

[stndn]

go with <div>'s..
it's easier to change the layout later if you want to, compared to if you use tables.
plus, <div>'s make you look cooler than <table>'s
,p

plus, it makes loading and rendering of pages a little bit faster

 

[screw3d]

As others said, <div>'s would be ideal. But I promise you that it's going to be a big PITA to implement it

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: screw3d
As others said, <div>'s would be ideal. But I promise you that it's going to be a big PITA to implement it

Not really
http://files.amdfanboy.com/ACM.html

 

[stndn]

you might also want to check out open source web development and see if you can find something interesting ,)

or check out piefecta's three column layout, although i don't like the idea of using css hacks to get something working

and to keep with the spirit of <div> vs <table>, read up tables vs css -)

<-- div/css slave

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: stndn
and to keep with the spirit of <div> vs <table>, read up tables vs css -)

Interesting link, I plan on reading some of these later.


Here's a good one:

I'm not against CSS, but I'm not against tables either. My beef is the fact a CSS fanboy will literally sh!t his pants and get upset when he sees a site with tables as if the Web site itself managed to magically grow a large penis and rape the sh!t out of his mother.

 

[AFB]

LMAO

 

[stndn]

btw, amdfanboy, it looks like you're mixing the <div>'s and <table>'s, with <table>'s used for layout, huh? ,)

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: stndn
btw, amdfanboy, it looks like you're mixing the <div>'s and <table>'s, with <table>'s used for layout, huh? ,)

I wanted the menu links to be auto spaced, so my option was tables. That is the only thing that uses them except the calendar on the other page.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: stndn
btw, amdfanboy, it looks like you're mixing the <div>'s and <table>'s, with <table>'s used for layout, huh? ,)

I wanted the menu links to be auto spaced, so my option was tables. That is the only thing that uses them except the calendar on the other page.

you suck at the css then It's such a PITA to stick to "proper" coding techniques. all the positioning crap is what gets me usually