Tableless Website

Hi Everyone,

Would it be better to make website table less? Has anyone ever developed website completely table less?

And, what's the purpose of making a site table less?

Hope, I will have some good inputs from you guys. Thanks...

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Heya Jack

It's better to code a website tabless, the main reasons being it is so much cleaner, so it will be much easier to edit, load faster, and be more accessible. There's no need to make anything completely tabless, tables should be used to hold content in a page, just as long as their not abused and used to structure the site's design.

Hope that helps.

Yeah. If you have tabular data then you need a table. As you are coding the actual structural parts of the page then use CSS rather than tables.

Using CSS and divs, there is a lot more style flexibility than tables.

Originally Posted by coder-chris Yeah. If you have tabular data then you need a table. As you are coding the actual structural parts of the page then use CSS rather than tables. Using CSS and divs, there is a lot more style flexibility than tables.

What he said about tables, tables should be used for Tables and not for design. Oh and for Forms because CSS and Them can be evil sometimes ;lol.

I develop completely tables designs, my site is tabless and could be done with a table too but, what you cant do with a table is control it as well as i can with Divs and CSS (http://jwilkinson.ca/site) that is tabeless.

Layers appear as they load, whereas tables will have to be fully loaded before they appear. This makes a lot of difference for those on a slow internet connection.

It's a good idea to make a tableless website, but i don't think it's as crucial as everyone says its. Websites built with tables are just as easy to code and easy to edit, it's just an older methodod of coding that has become unpopular over the past couple years.

Tabless is best.

Originally Posted by zelphics It's a good idea to make a tableless website, but i don't think it's as crucial as everyone says its. Websites built with tables are just as easy to code and easy to edit, it's just an older methodod of coding that has become unpopular over the past couple years.

Easier to code if you are using dreamweaver and can click a button to insert a table and type in the amount of rows and columns you want. If your actually 'coding' it's not easier. As for editing, tables are definitely not as easy to edit, there a nightmare to edit. Once you have a table based structure, your trapped, your going to find it really hard to get out of it.

Originally Posted by Saulie Easier to code if you are using dreamweaver and can click a button to insert a table and type in the amount of rows and columns you want. If your actually 'coding' it's not easier. As for editing, tables are definitely not as easy to edit, there a nightmare to edit. Once you have a table based structure, your trapped, your going to find it really hard to get out of it.

easy is in the eyes of the beholder mate!

I personally find them just as easy to code.

I remember when I first started coding, and I used tables. But, as soon as I got into CSS, I found it the way to go.
CSS is much more... fluid. You can achieve way more with css that just cannot be done with tables.
I have designed and coded tons of different sites without tables. Some people were amazed by the fact that my layouts didn't use tables.
Tables should be used to display tabular data only.
CSS is also better because it allows your site to be more accessible (WAI) to people with disabilities.
Try going to a site and checking out its structure (take off the stylesheets in your browser). With CSS, only the data is displayed, but when tables are involved for the design, there are images all over the place, which are images we don't need.