CSS vs Tables

Was wondering which is best!!
CSS or Tables??
Can someone tell me which is better and why?
Someone please help

 

It's rather simple

Tables should ONLY be used for tabular data. If you use tables for layouts, you do it wrong.

Use CSS instead

 

I think it really depends on what you are making if you are making static sites i would prefer to use tables otherwise css layout is good one

 

Are you trying to get it indexed by Search Engines, or are you more focused on a slick website?

 

No, it does not matter if the site is static, very small, very big.... whatever.

You simply DO NOT use tables for layout. You might THINK that it's quick and easy, but you are wrong. Terribly wrong.

Sites created with table layout are a nightmare to maintain, and you can throw accessibility right out the window. There is also the fact that you abuse HTML.

Well, he should really use CSS instead of tables, no matter what his intentions are.



Anyone that says that tables should be used for layout is wrong. Plane and simple. It's and old technique, from a time where it seemingly was the only way (it was still the wrong thing to do).

 

It seems they now index css as well. Used to be an issue just a year ago.

 

What? Where did you hear/read that?

I don't want to insult you, but Google not indexing sites which use CSS is the biggest piece of bull**it I EVER heard. Whoever originally said that lied.


Could it be that it was Javascript?

 

A. You can watch Matt Cutts speaking about how Googlebot is "improving" in crawling CSS, below.
B. You can ease up on the S**t slinging, buddy. Whatever you have to say, can be said with citations, links, whatever you think can help you prove you're right.

http://www.beanstalk-inc.com/blog/2012/05/28/googlebot-now-indexing-javascript-ajax-css/

 

Definitely CSS. It allows you to update all of your page designs at once instead of having to do each of them manually if you used tables. Save yourself the headache and go with CSS.

 

I am not your buddy, and as stated above, I didn't mean to insult you.
If you take it personal, not my problem.


The video you posted is from last year. I have a question:

Do you really think that the google bot wasn't able to understand CSS up to this point?

 

If you took "buddy" literally, tough.
Good luck in life.

 

What's that supposed to mean .


Anyway: Care to answer my question ?

 

CSS for sure.

 

Oh gosh.
I use both. Css is for everything, (including data within a table).

Now within the html itself, if I have alot of data that really needs to be within a table, thats when I use a table. For example, if I am pulling out 100 records of users from an sql database, I will display that within a table.

so, css is for styling everything on the page (including the data within the table). Tables is html code, only to be used for storing tabular data that just wouldnt look right trying to store within paragraphs.

 

This is spot on and it actually addresses that tables can and should still be used for what tables were meant to be used for.

 

It vary from person to person as per their requirements but i would advice you to use css as they are fast loading and gives good result compare to table

 

Just saw that this was marked as "Best Answer".


For everyone that might read the thread and thinks - "hey, this is market as best answer, so it should be right." Think again - because this IS NOT THE BEST ANSWER.


If you think that tables for layout still has a place in 2013 (and beyond), do me, yourself and the rest of the world a favour and step away from the keyboard, make yourself a nice cup of coffee / tee and over-think your career choice.