Sunday, January 4, 2015
Don’t Be Afraid To Use Tables For Quick Tabular Data
Tables get more than their fair share of bashing by the web community. Before CSS really took hold, tables were required for web layout despite their obvious shortcomings for such a task. Now that the days of table-based layouts have faded, any lingering uses of tables is shot down and ridiculed by the web community.
But there is no reason to be a table-hater! Tables have one, distinct, incredibly purposeful use. Can you guess it?
Tables are for tabular data
Do you have a a table of information to display? Then a table is how you should display it. Using some kind of CSS positioning thing to create a table is just as egregious and ill-suited as using tables for web layout.
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Table Header 1 Table Header 2 Table Header 3 Data Data Data Data Data Data
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