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……：）

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

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.

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.

1:是的，你的用户很关心。如果他们使用屏幕阅读器，它就会丢失。如果我使用任何其他试图从页面中提取信息的工具，遇到不用于表示表格数据的表是一种误导。

div或span用于分隔内容是可以接受的，因为这正是那些元素的含义。当我，一个搜索引擎，一个屏幕阅读器或其他任何东西，遇到一个表格元素，我们期望这意味着“以下是表格数据，表示在一个表中”。当我们遇到div时，我们期望“这是一个用于将内容划分为单独部分或区域的元素。

2 .可读性:错误。如果所有的表示代码都是css，我可以阅读html，我将理解页面的内容。或者我可以阅读css和理解的表示。如果html中的所有内容都是混杂在一起的，那么在我甚至可以看到什么是内容，什么不是内容之前，我必须在脑海中剔除所有与表示相关的部分。 此外，我害怕遇到一个不懂css的web开发人员，所以我真的不认为这是一个问题。

3:表比较慢:是的，它们比较慢。原因很简单:在呈现表之前，必须对表进行完整的解析，包括其内容。可以在遇到div时呈现它，甚至在它的内容被解析之前。这意味着div会在页面加载完成之前显示出来。

还有一个好处是，表格更加脆弱，在不同的浏览器中呈现的效果并不总是一样的，不同的字体和字体大小以及所有其他可能导致布局变化的因素。表格是一种很好的方法，可以确保你的网站在某些浏览器中会偏离一两个像素，当用户改变字体大小或以任何其他方式改变设置时，它不会很好地缩放。

Of course #1 is the big one. A lot of tools and applications depend on the semantic meaning of a webpage. The usual example is screen-readers for visually impaired users. If you're a web developer, you'll find that many large companies who may otherwise hire you to work on a site, require that the site is accessible even in this case. Which means you have to think about the semantic meaning of your html. With the semantic web, or more relevantly, microformats, rss readers and other tools, your page content is no longer viewed exclusively through a browser.

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。