Basic HTML – HTML Tables
February 28, 2011
Tables are often misused to lay out a page. Before CSS positioning, that was a good solution, but is no longer necessary, and with the better alternative, a bad idea. It creates quite a mess out of the code, which causes problems with spiders and search engines and makes updating a page much harder. However, using tables to display tabular date – which is what they are meant for – is perfectly fine.
