当然，这篇文章有点小题大做，争论似乎很简单，很容易反驳。

网页是Web开发人员的领域，如果他们说div和CSS比表格更好，那对我来说已经足够好了。

如果布局是由服务器应用程序生成的表实现的，那么新的布局意味着对应用程序的更改，应用程序的重新构建和重新部署，而不仅仅是对css文件的更改。

另外,可访问性。用于布局的表格会使网站无法访问，所以不要使用它们。这是显而易见的，更不用说违法了。

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.

一张桌子来布置也不错。但大多数情况下，仅靠一张表是无法得到所需的布局的。很快你就有了2到3个嵌套表。这变得非常麻烦。

It IS a LOT harder to read. That's not up to opinion. There's just more nested tags with no identifying marks on them. Separating content from presentation is a good thing because it allows you to focus on what you're doing. Mixing the two leads to bloated pages that are hard to read. CSS for styles allows your browser to cache the files and subsequent requests are much faster. This is HUGE. Tables lock you into a design. Sure, not everyone needs the flexibility of CSS Zen Garden, but I've never worked on a site where I didn't need to change the design a little bit here and there. It's much easier with CSS. Tables are hard to style. You don't have very much flexibility with them (i.e. you still need to add HTML attributes to fully control a table's styles)

我大概有4年没有用表格来处理非表格数据了。我没有回头。

我真的很想建议你阅读Andy Budd的《CSS Mastery》。棒极了。

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我相信这是一个与普遍问题有关的问题。HTML诞生时，没有人能预见到它的广泛应用。另一项在自身成功的重压下几乎崩溃的技术。当HTML页面用vi在绿色文本终端上编写时，向页面访问者显示数据所需要的只是一个TABLE，而且大多数数据都是以表格形式显示的。

我们都知道事物是如何进化的。相对来说，table最近已经过时了，但是有很多理由更喜欢基于div和CSS的布局(可访问性不是最后一个)。当然我不能写一个CSS来拯救我的生命:-)，我认为图形设计专家应该总是在手边。

也就是说……即使在现代网站中，也有许多数据应该在表格中显示。

Layout should be easy. The fact that there are articles written on how to achieve a dynamic three column layout with header and footer in CSS shows that it is a poor layout system. Of course you can get it to work, but there are literally hundreds of articles online about how to do it. There are pretty much no such articles for a similar layout with tables because it's patently obvious. No matter what you say against tables and in favor of CSS, this one fact undoes it all: a basic three column layout in CSS is often called "The Holy Grail".

如果这不能让你说“WTF”，那么你现在真的需要放下酷爱饮料了。

我喜欢CSS。它提供了惊人的样式选项和一些很酷的定位工具，但作为一个布局引擎，它是有缺陷的。需要某种类型的动态网格定位系统。一个直接的方法来对齐多个轴上的盒子，而不知道他们的大小。我不在乎你叫它<table>或<gridlayout>或其他什么，但这是CSS中缺少的一个基本布局特性。

更大的问题是，由于不承认有缺失的特性，CSS狂热者一直在阻碍CSS的发展。如果CSS能像世界上其他布局引擎一样提供像样的多轴网格定位，我很乐意停止使用表格。(你应该意识到这个问题已经被除了W3C之外的所有人用多种语言解决过很多次了，对吧?没有人否认这样一个功能是有用的。)

叹息。足够的通风。去吧，把头埋进沙子里。

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。