<div> and <table>

I have always thought that most sites use tables for keeping content organized. I like this website (http://www.customicondesign.com/) and it uses <div>. Why does that person use div and what are the advantages and disadvantages of using it?

 

I doubt the seo friendly nature of <div> tags.

 

It's the current web standard. Divs load quick. There was a subject similar to this yesterday.

 

they use css style sheet

 

yes unitechy is correct. say you want 2 paragraphs of text different from the rest, one way would be to use the <div> tags. Css is a wonderful thing and you should read up on it. it will save you loads of time.

 

Just search this forum and you'll find like a 1000 good answers and threads.

 

Divs loads quicker than tables. Divs are one good tag for css purposes.

 

Divs are non-descript HTML elmeents without any semantic meaning, other than "division of the page".

Web sites that are coded properly will not use DIVs instead of tables, but instead will use semantic markup, which is the use of the proper HTML elements (tag pairs) for the job. Such as H1, H2, H3 (and so on) for headings, unordered lists for menus (since a menu is just a list of links), P tags for paragraphs, and so on to define the structure of the Web page (HTML is like an outline for a report in that sense).

 

Other than tables doesn't load as quickly as div layers, I think using div layers are more much organized and neater codes compared to tables, IMO.

 

Tables were never meant to be used for web page layout, they are for tabular data, but a lot of designers resorted to using them for layout before CSS was as supported as it is now.

A div allows for the grouping of HTML elements so that CSS styles can be applied.


Rich

 

And even then, a lot of the time the DIVs aren't necessary.

 

Using divs and css is a great way to keep your code to text ratio down.

It also will allow you to change the layout of your web page with less coding, since all you will have to do is edit the css.