Why use CSS at all?
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- ********0
just give up if your not willing to keep up...
- ********0
I guess you can use what you want if it pleases you. Why impose just one way of doing things? Tables can be useful if you want that old table look&feel for some reason - which isn't contradictory to the use of CSS. Just like layers and iframes. The real question is why does everybody needs to benchmark its way of doing things as the more reasonable one. Can't we be free in the way we make websites. Please?
- mrdobolina0
well using css separates the content from the code, which allows search engines to access the content easier, so I wouldnt say that there is no reason to use it.
- Fariska0
... and make the sites reskinnable at any time and portable to all the screens (big and small) and even on print.
- TheBlueOne0
I remember that learning curve going from table based design to all css...I even made the same argument "Well, I'll use tables for structure/layot and css for everything else..." but a week or so of playing with it and it all sorted itself out in my head, It's just a different conceptual model - and once you get it it makes so much more sense than tables. You too will shudder at the thought and mock kneejerkingly those who would suggest using tables for layout like everyone here is currently doing to you in this thread...
- it will literally take you a couple days of playing with it to catch on to how easy it is...********
- then you will fucking shudder and twitch when you see tables, especially if its something you have to edit********
- Understood... ill give it a shot for the sake of the wwwJeermid
- it will literally take you a couple days of playing with it to catch on to how easy it is...
- ldww0
Go back to whatever you used to be doing if you do not want to take the time to understand why css is beneficial.
- Fariska0
On the first agency (2 yr ago), when i started to do the HTML, the programmers watched my code as "strange", and once happened i had to convert my tableless layout to tables because a site that has to be done by a dev agency said that "my code was totally wrong and incompatible for them"
- Chazolta0
I love this thread. Tables are for data, not design. If your not going to follow the current trends, you will not succeed.
- jonatne0
Actually pure css based layouts are on their way out.
The new thing is going to be a mix of css and tables.
Take a look at this>
http://www.sitepoint.com/example…- read this instead>> http://www.sitepoint…
jonatne - Please... CSS is not difficult or "fragile" if you just learn it fully... not half-assed learning.ETM
- Is the fixed bottom nav bar on this page www.sitepoint.com supported in most browsers?Jeermid
- ffs, it took the W3C 10 years to go full circle? What a crock of shit.detritus
- read this instead>> http://www.sitepoint…
- ETM0
I wouldn't want a tables design at all today. It's like a builder not adhering to current building codes simply because, "houses never fell down before."
Every business changes and requires people in it to do so. The world doesn't stand still.
- kult0
Sigh. CSS is so much more than a "replacement" for tables. You really, really need to get out more.
Or rather.. in more. Seriously. Google.
- pr20
i'm too old and too lazy to learn CSS properly... then again i don't do anything but update my personal website.
- mg330
Tables for web site layout is so completely in the past. It's like, say, a wooden tennis racket vs. a graphite, carbon fiber, etc. tennis racket. They do the same thing, but who's using wooden rackets these days? Can you even buy brand new ones? Why would you play with one when everyone else is using the best and most common thing out there?
I love CSS and have learned enough to feel very comfortable with my skill level. I love being able to use the Web Dev toolbar in FF and edit and build and test sites easily. At this point it would just be a horror to think about making multiple changes page after page after page in HTML pages.
To the OP - don't fight against it. Trust everyone in this thread, you will be doing yourself a major favor to learn CSS.
- mrdobolina0
totally agree, but I dont understand why people need to be dicks about it though.
- mrdobolina0
Half Shark Alligator half man
- JamesBoynton0
Use css.
Use tables for tabular information.
- ********0
i hear netscape might be competition for mosaic
