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

这并不一定是一场战争。和谐是可能的。

使用一个表的整体布局和div在其中。

<table> 
    <tr><td colspan="3"><div>Top content</div></td></tr>
    <tr> 
        <td><div>Left navigation</div></td> 
        <td><div>Main content</div></td> 
        <td><div>Right navigation</div></td> 
    </tr>
    <tr><td colspan="3"><div>Bottom content</div></td></tr>
</table>

看,没有嵌套表。

我读过很多关于如何用divs实现这一点的文章,但从来没有发现任何事情,每次都没有问题。

一旦你有了整体结构,Divs是很棒的,但坦率地说,流体页眉/页脚和三个流体列是Divs的一大痛苦。Divs不是为流动性而设计的,所以为什么要使用它们呢?

注意,这种方法将在链接文本中提供100%的CSS遵从性

其他回答

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。

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。

CSS布局通常在可访问性方面要好得多,前提是内容以自然的顺序出现,并且没有样式表也有意义。不仅仅是屏幕阅读器难以适应基于表格的布局:它们也使移动浏览器更难正确呈现页面。

此外,使用基于div的布局,你可以很容易地用打印样式表做一些很酷的事情,比如从打印页面中排除页眉、页脚和导航——我认为这是不可能的,或者至少很难用基于表格的布局做到这一点。

If you're doubting that separation of content from layout is easier with divs than with tables, take a look at the div-based HTML at CSS Zen Garden, see how changing the stylesheets can drastically change the layout, and think about whether you could achieve the same variety of layouts if the HTML was table based... If you're doing a table-based layout, you're unlikely to be using CSS to control all the spacing and padding in the cells (if you were, you'd almost certainly find it easier to use floating divs etc. in the first place). Without using CSS to control all that, and because of the fact that tables specify the left-to-right and top-to bottom order of things in the HTML, tables tend to mean that your layout becomes very much fixed in the HTML.

实际上,我认为完全改变一个基于div和css的设计而不改变div是非常困难的。然而,使用基于div和css的布局,就更容易调整不同块之间的间距以及它们的相对大小。

我很惊讶地发现有些问题还没有涉及到,所以除了之前提出的所有非常有效的观点之外,以下是我的2点看法:

.1.CSS & SEO:

a) CSS used to have a very significant impact on SEO by allowing to position the content in the page wherever you want. A few years ago, Search Engines were giving a significant emphasis to "on-page" factors. Something at the top of the page was deemed more relevant to the page than something located at the bottom. "Top of the page" for a spider meant "at the beginning of the code". Using CSS, you could organize your keyword-rich content at the beginning of the code, and still position it wherever you liked in the page. This is still somewhat relevant, but on page factors are less and less important for page ranking.

b)当布局转移到CSS时,HTML页面更轻,因此对于搜索引擎蜘蛛加载更快。(蜘蛛不需要下载外部CSS文件)。快速加载页面是一个重要的排名考虑几个搜索引擎,包括谷歌

c) SEO工作通常需要测试和更改内容,这与基于CSS的布局更方便

。2。生成的内容:

用编程方式生成表要比等效的CSS布局容易得多。

foreach ($comment as $key=>$value)
{
   echo "<tr><td>$key</td><td>$value</td></tr>";
}

生成表很简单,也很安全。它是自包含的,可以很好地集成到任何模板中。用CSS做同样的事情要困难得多,而且可能根本没有任何好处:很难在飞行中编辑CSS样式表,并且内联添加样式与使用表没有什么不同(内容没有与布局分离)。

此外,在生成表时,内容(在变量中)已经与布局(在代码中)分离,使其易于修改。

这就是为什么一些设计非常好的网站(例如SO)仍然使用表格布局的原因之一。

当然,如果需要通过JavaScript对结果进行操作,那么div是值得的。

。3。快速转换测试

在找出适合特定受众的方法时,能够以各种方式更改布局以找出最佳结果是很有用的。基于CSS的布局使事情变得相当简单

。4。不同的问题有不同的解决方案

布局表通常被鄙视,因为“每个人都知道div和CSS”才是正确的方式。

然而,事实仍然是,表创建更快,更容易理解,比大多数CSS布局更健壮。(是的,CSS可以很健壮,但是在不同的浏览器和屏幕分辨率上快速浏览一下网络就会发现情况并非如此)

桌子有很多缺点,包括维护、缺乏灵活性……但是我们不要把孩子和洗澡水一起丢了。快速可靠的解决方案有很多专业用途。

前段时间,我不得不用表格重写了一个干净简单的CSS布局,因为相当一部分用户会使用对CSS支持非常差的旧版本IE

就我而言,我已经厌倦了“哦,不!”布局的表格!”

至于那些“它不是为了这个目的而设计的,因此你不应该这样使用它”的人群,这不是虚伪吗?你怎么看待所有的CSS技巧,你必须使用使该死的东西工作在大多数浏览器?他们是为了这个目的吗?

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.