Which one is better div or table ?

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Which one is better div or table ?

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Better for what?

If you're talking about layout, then divs and CSS are better. Tables aren't meant for layout; they're meant for presenting tabular data.

 

it depends on what you are trying to achieve
people tends to use div/css nowdays

 

I prefer table...I find div difficult.

 

It's not a question of whether one is better than the other. The question is which one is better for what you want to do. Some designers like to use DIVs with style sheets and others like to use tables for the layout of a site. You can even use them together. I think more experienced designers prefer DIVs as it gives you more control and less restrictions than a simple table. If you do use tables.. Just don't nest 5 layers of them.

 

DIVs are meant to be used for layout, Tables are not.
Those are unable to build layouts using DIV, go for table layout and that shows their lack of capabilities in building layouts.

 

I used to use table, now with div

 

me to feel div is hard .. but .. now all use tht i think ..

 

Div is better than table. table base design have problem to placing content at the pinpoint position what need. But using div any content item can be place any where of browser window .

 

Always Div for me and what Ive always been told is to stay away from tables.

 

divs, tables are really bad. Very archaic compared to the freedom of divs.

I saw someone mention they can't do divs, these are important and tables are used less and less - videos for you at the end. They got popular when people saw them as a cool way to set up a layout. Basically, before you used divs, tables were all you had. Now you can float and justify divs, build tables that can be dynamically moved round
site wide without effecting to others or re-coding everything.

Picture a div as an object. It's actually what it is. You take that div and you can stack them (in fact, they naturally stack) but you can also put them side by side or completely in a different area, all with just edits to your CSS.

Tables on the other hand must always follow rules of columns and rows. I mean, I bet you can like, lay out single-cells at a time and maybe style them (?) but I don't know as it'd be kinda dumb to try when I've got divs, you know? Divs also give us layers.

divs explained in various styles:http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=divs&sa=N&tab=wv&um=1#q=div+html&hl=en&emb=1

 

A correct division beetween semantic (xhtml) and presentation (css) can make you save a lot of time in the long and short term.

Tableless sites are a little difficult to make in the beginning but once you understand the concept behind them they became easier and faster to make than a table-layout site

 

DIVs are a better option than tables on some of the things that they can do so a lot of times I use them in conjunction with one another.

 

both are different. If you use div you need to create styling css file. Table no need css. So div for design only

 

Tables are the best for tabular data

 

i am also using div

 

If you are talking about layout. Div is better than table but some case table is better such as newsletter email layout. You need to know which one is fit for a type of your work.

 

Divs and css is lighter code from what im aware, ever since ive read about best practices it suggests avoiding tables.

 

Assuming it's for websites, though, and since presentation is everything and everyone who has been doing it for a while hates tables, I'd say use divs, and they really are a lot smarter and easier to use. They are great because, again, you just edit your style sheet and put them wherever you want them - you are in total control. There are uses for tables, but I really haven't seen a table outside of BBCode in a long time - none that I can even remember. The reason is because tables are frowned upon, but not because they are bad, just because div was made to be better than it, and to success it.

 

Divs are probably going to be the most widely used right now.
Tables work good for some things but ultimately Divs are better imo.