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What are tables?

April 26, 2017tables

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What are tables?

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Tables are the old way of formatting a web page. When web pages first came about, they were used in a primarily academic environment where the emphasis was on content and not on layout or design. As such, there was an option called a table which was meant to display tabular data, or the type of data that you would find on a spreadsheet. However, with the spread of the web to the general public it was found that tables could also be used to create complex web page layouts with videos, picture, and various text formatting. The downside to this is that designing a site with tables is very time consuming, tiresome, and expensive when modifications are required. Tables still are the best option for displaying tabular data. CSS is the newer and better method for web site layout.

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From the perspective of design screens in WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) HTML editors such as Dreamweaver and FrontPage, tables are rectangular boundaries made up of smaller rectangles called cells, used to control content placement on web pages.