我曾经处理过一个包含6层嵌套表的网站，这个网站是由一些应用程序生成的，并且生成了无效的HTML，事实上，我花了3个小时的时间来纠正它，因为一个小的改变。

这当然是边缘情况，但是基于表的设计是不可维护的。如果你使用css，你分离了样式，所以在修复HTML时，你不必担心破坏。

同样，用JavaScript试试这个方法。将单个表单元格从一个位置移动到另一个表中的另一个位置。执行起来相当复杂，div/span只需要复制粘贴即可。

“我的老板在乎吗?”

如果我是你的老板。你会在乎的。,)如果你珍视你的生命。

This isn't really about whether 'divs are better than tables for layout'. Someone who understands CSS can duplicate any design using 'layout tables' pretty straightforwardly. The real win is using HTML elements for what they are there for. The reason you would not use tables for non-tablular data is the same reason you don't store integers as character strings - technology works much more easily when you use it for the purpose for which it is desgined. If it was ever necessary to use tables for layout (because of browser shortcomings in the early 1990s) it certainly isn't now.

另外，别忘了，表格在移动浏览器上的渲染效果并不好。当然，iPhone拥有强大的浏览器，但并不是每个人都有iPhone。对于现代浏览器来说，表呈现可能是花生，但对于移动浏览器来说，它却是一堆西瓜。

我个人发现很多人使用了太多的<div>标记，但如果适当，它可以非常干净且易于阅读。你提到人们阅读CSS比阅读表格更困难;就“代码”而言，这可能是真的;但是在读取内容方面(查看>源代码)，用样式表理解结构要比用表容易得多。

I have found that even with the best planning divs come up short in several respects. For instance. there is no way with divs to have a bottom bar that always sits at the bottom of the browser, even when the rest of the content does not go to the bottom of the browser. Also, you cannot elegantly do anything better than three columns, and you cannot have columns that grow and shrink according the the width of their content. In the end, we try to use divs first. However, we will not limit our html designs based on some religious content vs layout ideal.

我想使用表格元素进行布局确实与表格数据没有什么关系。那又怎样?我的老板在乎吗?我的用户关心吗?

谷歌和其他自动化系统确实关心这些问题，而且它们在许多情况下同样重要。语义代码对于非智能系统来说更容易解析和处理。

超级简单的回答:用表格设计可维护的网站是很困难的，而用标准的方法来做是很简单的。

网站不是一个表格，它是相互交互的组件的集合。把它描述成一个表是没有意义的。