Do you use tables when making a website?

Yeah, I know what you mean there. I'm the same, I think reinventing the wheel and trying to recode a badly coded piece of software to remove tables or HTML validation errors is just far too much work for a forum or site that needs to be ready in less than a good few months.

 

Same here. I use to code all of my sites with tables only, until I learned it wasn't the right way to do things.

 

I never use tables. Why do we have to use it when we have CSS ? Actually using the table is kind of frowned upon these days, and most people recommend CSS.

 

I no longer use tables on any project, they are actually deprecated as an html element. I use css to position everything and it really is easy to do when you get the hang of it. The end result is sites that don't break, including IE.

 

What?
I'm sure that's not true:P Have you any link?

 

when I was learning to program I used, it was much easier and fast, now use the divs.

 

They're not deprecated. They're still perfectly valid, they're just meant to be used for tabular data. For instance, if you have a timetable or database table visualisation, then you're supposed to use a table for it because that's what it is.

And using them for layouts hasn't technically become 'invalid' code wise, just discouraged.

 

I usually will use tables when my knowledge of CSS fails me. If I don't have time to look it up and do it "correctly", I'll just use a table and not worry about. If I think of it, I might change it later.

 

Not for design. I've seen some basic websites designed with tables and they don't look particularly nice.

 

I only use tables for centering stuff vertically on a page, like for my personal website, http://lukelarris.com.

 

While I don't recommend tables for design, it's a bit harsh to say sites designed using them don't look particularly nice.

After all, every early 00s site I can remember used them, and some of those did look pretty good.

That seems like it could be done fairly easily with CSS alone (the style does look pretty good as of this point in time though).

 

Tables are completely dated. Everything can be done with divs.

 

What about when displaying tabular data, such as a list of orders in a database table?

I am of the opinion that tables have their purpose - but isn't design related!

 

I don't usually use tables on my websites but on the last project I had to display the items of an inventory and there it made a lot of sense using a table. I felt funny while doing so because there have been years sin the last time I placed a table tag on any site.

 

There's nothing wrong with that, tables are meant for tabular data and that seems like it was tabular data. That's where you're meant to use a table.

 

I have yet to see something reliable to do that though. Also, thanks

 

I think tables are passe. SPAN and DIV are the go to ways for making tables. They make your page much lighter than using conventional tables on your page.

 

Depends what its for for like
- Awards
- Leaderboards
- Top Downloads
- Achievements
Pretty much the things i use it for not always but yanno

 

You are right, many web apps are built used tables. I have seen many joomla templates that make use of tables. When I have used I obviously haven't made any changes on the code as it would turn into a headache and the result would look the same. For any new design I stay away from tables to create the layout and only use them to display data.

 

Yep, but only to display formatted data. I'm lazy and a responsive table is a 10 second done deal.