CSS based design vs. Table based design

thomasEpand · **CSS based design vs. Table based design -** 11-18-2008, 06:00 AM

CSS based design vs. Table based design has been a debatable topic since long. Both the designs have their own set of advantages and disadvantages. CSS based design is however used by a majority of people today. CSS means cascading style sheets which enable us to split up the design and the content. There is a lesser need of codes in case of the CSS based design as compared to the table based designs.

There are various advantages of CSS based design. As the codes used are smaller in number it enables us to make downloads faster. This also helps the search engines in acquiring proper content from your websites which in turn leads to higher rankings. The ranking that the websites receive is of great importance for greater traffic and visitors.

Table based design makes use of greater number of codes which leads to formation of complicated patterns. This affects the ranking of the website. Here there is a mixture of less meaningful content due to the codes and your own original content. You can use CSS based design so that only meaningful content is displayed. You can also make easier modifications in CSS based design as compared to the table based design. The use of CSS based design is on the rise due to all these benefits.

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jwenting · 01-16-2009, 07:58 AM

I thought that debate to be LONG over...
Use tables to group data, CSS for everything else.

agnus · 03-07-2009, 06:33 AM

Tables can absolutely be used just fine for layout purposes. Actually they can behave better for that purpose, plus save a great deal of time. I have explained hundreds of times why, I won't get into that conversation again, just don't listen to the FUD sayers.

That certainly does not mean one should use always tables or divs. An experienced designer will use the right tool for the job.

flooringspot · 08-20-2009, 02:22 PM

Layouts or only good when they are put in templates. The usual use of css is to keep all the code organized and clean. If you do make tables it might be the easy quick fix out but over the long run you may have problems and find yourself ending up converting it to css anyways.

brp002 · 09-27-2009, 10:22 PM

From my understanding is if you use CSS the website will load faster. If you have a complex website made of tables then it will take a while to load and that can hurt you with SEO and user friendliness. I use CSS for layout and try to keep tables to a bare minimum. If you have a easy website with three tables and info in the middle then it really does not matter.

tina123 · **the importance of css -** 10-19-2009, 05:27 AM

The CSS analysis is the current browser important part,but the support situation looked from the current mainstream browserto CSS, makes a perfect CSS analysis certainly is not an easy matter.

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fazthegreat · 10-23-2009, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by brp002

From my understanding is if you use CSS the website will load faster. If you have a complex website made of tables then it will take a while to load and that can hurt you with SEO and user friendliness. I use CSS for layout and try to keep tables to a bare minimum. If you have a easy website with three tables and info in the middle then it really does not matter.

I totally agree with this and come on, using CSS you have so much flexibility.