Mar 29, 2010
Why tableless web design
Those who want to design a website, and who has knowledge in web design trends, will add the requirement: We need table less design.
Why Table-less?
- Improves accessibility across variety of screens.
- Reduces page size and moves all styling to external stylesheet. And nested tables load slowly. So it helps in saving bandwidth.
- Changes can be implemented in entire website by editing in single stylesheet.
- Improves Search Engine Optimization.
- Improves alignment while printing.
- lot more.
Tableless Layout, HOW-TO from W3C : Click here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tableless_web_design
http://webdesign.about.com/od/layout/a/aa111102a.htm
Sometimes designers believe table tag is deprecated and use div tag everywhere. But its not. Table tag is useful is necessary in situations where we need to display tabular data. Using divisions to simulate a table for the display of tabular data is as much a design flaw as using tables to control graphic and page layout. So it depends on the scenario where you want to use TABLE and where you want to use DIV.
In this era of HTML5 and CSS3, you should never use table for layout purposes. And use tables if you need to display tabular data, especially when the content is dynamic.
