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Chris Maunder24-Jan-16 9:12
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I always find it interesting that when designers want a grid they use insanely complicated floating divs instead of, you know, just using a grid element (aka TABLE).

A table reflows, a table ensures cells heights are equal, a table handles borders easily, and yes, a table can be responsive[^].

Tables get a bad rap because they are used for element positioning / text flow (see discussion[^]), because in the early days they stopped page rendering[^], because of concerns about bandwidth, and because of responsive design issues.

At this point I feel all the technical arguments of DIVs vs Tables are moot: bandwidth isn't as much of an issue, rendering speed is rarely an issue, and tables can be made responsive. Tables should not be used to handle element positioning, but I don't understand why there's such a push to use DIVs instead of TABLEs to render tabular data.
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