围绕语义标记的整个思想是标记和表示的分离，其中包括布局。

Div并没有取代表，它们在将内容分离为相关内容块(，)方面有自己的用途。当您不具备这些技能并且依赖于表格时，您通常必须将内容分离到单元格中以获得所需的布局，但是在使用语义标记时，您不需要触摸标记来实现表示。在生成标记而不是静态页面时，这一点非常重要。

开发人员需要停止提供暗示布局的标记，以便我们这些拥有显示内容技能的人能够继续工作，并且开发人员不必在表示需要更改时返回他们的代码进行更改。

当您需要确保元素在布局中保持特定的物理关系时，请使用表格。对于数据，表格通常是最适合使用的布局元素，因为您不希望列以超出预期的方式包装，从而混淆了关联。

也有人可能会说，必须保持特定关系的非数据元素也应该呈现在表中。

灵活的css布局非常适合于移动设备、大屏幕、打印和其他显示类型的内容，但有时，内容必须以非常特定的方式显示，如果这要求屏幕阅读器无法轻松访问它，那么它可能是非常合理的。

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。

我认为没有人会在意一个网站是如何设计/实现的，当它运行得很好并且运行得很快的时候。

我在HTML标记中同时使用“table”和“div”/“span”标记。

让我给你一些我为什么选择跳水的理由:

for a table you have to write at least 3 tags (table, tr, td, thead, tbody), for a nice design, sometimes you have a lot of nested tables I like to have components on the page. I don't know how to explain exactly but will try. Suppose you need a logo and this have to be placed, just a small piece of it, over the next page content. Using tables you have to cut 2 images and put this into 2 different TDs. Using DIVs you can have a simple CSS to arange it as you want. Which solution do you like best? when more then 3 nested tables for doing something I am thinking to redesign it using DIVs

但是我仍然在使用表格:

表格数据 扩展自我的内容 快速解决方案(原型)，因为DIVs盒子模型在每个浏览器上是不同的，因为许多生成器使用表格等

我很抱歉我的英语不好，但还有一个原因:

我在一些政府机构工作，不使用TABLE的首要原因是残疾人。他们使用机器“翻译”网页。

问题是这个“翻译机器”不能阅读网站，如果它是由TABLE。为什么?因为TABLE是用于数据的。

事实上，如果你使用TABLES，你必须为每个cell指定一些信息，让残疾人知道他们在TABLE中的位置。想象一下，你有一个大表格，必须放大才能看到屏幕上的一个单元格:你必须知道你在哪一行/col。

因此，使用DIV，并且禁用可以简单地阅读文本，并且不会得到一些关于行/cols的奇怪信息，当它们不需要在那里时。

我也更喜欢TABLE来制作快速简单的模板，但我现在习惯了CSS…它很强大，但你真的必须知道你在做什么……：）

I still don't quite understand how divs / CSS make it easier to change a page design when you consider the amount of testing to ensure the changes work on all browsers, especially with all the hacks and so on. Its a hugely frustrating and tedious process which wastes large amounts of time and money. Thankfully the 508 legislation only applies to the USA (land of the free - yeah right) and so being as I am based in the UK, I can develop web sites in whatever style I choose. Contrary to popular (US) belief, legislation made in Washington doesn't apply to the rest of the world - thank goodness for that. It must have been a good day in the world of web design the day the legislation came into force. I think I'm becoming increasingly cynical as I get older with 25 years in the IT industry but I feel sure this kind of legislation is just to protect jobs. In reality anyone can knock together a reasonable web page with a couple of tables. It takes a lot more effort and knowledge to do this with DIVs / CSS. In my experience it can take hours and hours Googling to find solutions to quite simple problems and reading incomprehensible articles in forums full of idealistic zealots all argueing about the 'right' way to do things. You can't just dip your toe in the water and get things to work properly in every case. It also seems to me that the lack of a definitive guide to using DIVS / CSS "out of the box", that applies to all situations, working on browsers, and written using 'normal' language with no geek speak, also smells of a bit of protectionism. I'm an application developer and I would say it takes almost twice as long to figure out layout problems and test against all browsers than it does to create the basic application, design and implement business objects, and create the database back end. My time = money, both for me and my customers alike so I am sorry if I don't reject all the pro DIV / CSS arguments in favour of cutting costs and providing value for money for my customers. Maybe its just the way that developers minds work, but it seems to me far easier to change a complex table structure than it is to modify DIVs / CSS. Thankfully it now appears that a solution to these issues is now available - its called WPF.