在HTML中,表格不应该用于布局,这似乎是普遍的观点。

Why?

我从来没有(老实说,很少)看到过支持这一点的有力论据。通常的答案是:

It's good to separate content from layoutBut this is a fallacious argument; Cliche Thinking. I guess it's true that using the table element for layout has little to do with tabular data. So what? Does my boss care? Do my users care?Perhaps me or my fellow developers who have to maintain a web page care... Is a table less maintainable? I think using a table is easier than using divs and CSS.By the way... why is using a div or a span good separation of content from layout and a table not? Getting a good layout with only divs often requires a lot of nested divs. Readability of the codeI think it's the other way around. Most people understand HTML, few understand CSS. It's better for SEO not to use tablesWhy? Can anybody show some evidence that it is? Or a statement from Google that tables are discouraged from an SEO perspective? Tables are slower.An extra tbody element has to be inserted. This is peanuts for modern web browsers. Show me some benchmarks where the use of a table significantly slows down a page. A layout overhaul is easier without tables, see css Zen Garden.Most web sites that need an upgrade need new content (HTML) as well. Scenarios where a new version of a web site only needs a new CSS file are not very likely. Zen Garden is a nice web site, but a bit theoretical. Not to mention its misuse of CSS.

我对使用divs + CSS而不是表的良好参数非常感兴趣。


当前回答

In the past, screen readers and other accessibility software had a difficult time handling tables in an efficient fashion. To some extent, this became handled in screen readers by the reader switching between a "table" mode and a "layout" mode based on what it saw inside the table. This was often wrong, and so the users had to manually switch the mode when navigating through tables. In any case, the large, often highly nested tables were, and to a large extent, are still very difficult to navigate through using a screen reader.

The same is true when divs or other block-level elements are used to recreate tables and are highly nested. The purpose of divs is to be used as a fomating and layout element, and as such, are intended used to hold similar information, and lay it out on the screen for visual users. When a screen reader encounters a page, it often ignores any layout information, both CSS based, as well as html attribute based(This isn't true for all screen readers, but for the most popular ones, like JAWS, Windows Eyes, and Orca for Linux it is).

为此,表格式数据,也就是逻辑上有意义的在二维或多维维度中排序的数据,具有某种标题,最好放在表中,并使用div来管理页面上内容的布局。(另一种思考“表格数据”的方式是尝试以图表形式绘制它……如果你不能,它可能不是最好的表示在一个表中)

Finally, with a table-based layout, in order to achieve a fine-grained control of the position of elements on the page, highly nested tables are often used. This has two effects: 1.) Increased code size for each page - Since navigation and common structure is often done with the tables, the same code is sent over the network for each request, whereas a div/css based layout pulls the css file over once, and then uses less wordy divs. 2.) Highly nested tables take much longer for the client's browser to render, leading to slightly slower load times.

在这两种情况下,“最后一英里”带宽的增加,以及更快的个人电脑缓解了这些因素,但它们仍然是许多网站存在的问题。

With all of this in mind, as others have said, tables are easier, because they are more grid-oriented, allowing for less thought. If the site in question is not expected to be around long, or will not be maintained, it might make sense to do what is easiest, because it might be the most cost effective. However, if the anticipated userbase might include a substantial portion of handicapped individuals, or if the site will be maintained by others for a long time, spending the time up front to do things in a concise, accessible way may payoff more in the end.

其他回答

DOM操作在基于表的布局中是很困难的。

使用语义div:

$('#myawesomediv').click(function(){
    // Do awesome stuff
});

表:

$('table tr td table tr td table tr td.......').click(function(){
    // Cry self to sleep at night
});

当然,第二个例子有点愚蠢,您总是可以将id或类应用到表或td元素上,但这将增加语义值,这是表的支持者强烈反对的。

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。

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.

通过仍然使用表格布局,我们错过了在div方面的创新。

许多人提出了解决方案,使创建布局的divs更容易。最流行的是网格架构。有基于此体系结构的动态布局生成器。查看: 1) 960。Gs和(http://grids.heroku.com/) 2)蓝图 最近也是如此。

在架构和表格布局工具方面,我还没有看到太多创新。

我想说,撇开所有的理论,实际上布局与CSS和div更快。相反,在这个方向上的创新使它变得更容易。

不幸的是,CSS Zen Garden不能再作为一个好的HTML/CSS设计的例子。实际上,他们最近的所有设计都使用图形作为部分标题。这些图形文件是在CSS中指定的。

因此,一个网站的目的是展示将设计排除在内容之外的优势,现在却经常犯将内容纳入设计的不可言说的罪。(如果HTML文件中的节标题要更改,则显示的节标题不会更改)。

这只能说明,即使是那些提倡严格的DIV和CSS宗教的人,也不能遵循他们自己的规则。你可以用它来指导你如何严格遵守它们。