Google gives very low priority to text content contained inside a table. I was giving some SEO advice to a local charity. In examining their website it was using tables to layout the site. Looking at each page, no matter what words - or combination of words - from their pages I used in the Google search box the pages would not come up in any of the top search pages. (However, by specifying the site in the search the page was returned.) One page was well copy written by normal standards to produce a good result in a search but still it didn't appear in any of the first pages of search results returned. (Note this text was within a table.) I then spotted a section of text on the pages which was in a div rather than a table. We put a few of the words from that div in the search engine. Result? It came in at No.2 in the search result.

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

根据我对表的了解，如果嵌套了太多的表，在呈现页面时浏览器会有很大的开销。

1 -浏览器必须等待呈现最终视图，直到整个表被加载。

2 - The algorithm to render the table is expensive and is not in a single go. The browser, as and when, gets the contents, will try to render calculating the content width and height. So, if you are having nested tables, say, the browser has received the first row and the 1st cell is having large amount of content and width and height not defined, it will calculate the width and will render the first row, In the mean while it gets the 2nd row will cell#2 having loads of content! It will now calculate the width for 2nd row cells.. What about the first ? It will calculate widths recursively. That's bad at client side. (To site an example) As a programmer, you'll optimize stuffs such as time to fetch data, optimized data structures and etc. You optimize things to complete on server side, say in2 secs, but end user in getting the final view in 8 secs. What is wrong here ? 1. May be network is slow! What if network is fine ? What is network is delivering the contents in next 1 sec ? Where is this extra 5 secs getting consumed ? Thing to worry about-- The browser might be taking lot of time in estimating and rendering the tables!

如何优化表? 如果你使用表格，我建议，总是定义单元格的宽度。这并不能保证浏览器会盲目地只取这个宽度，但会对浏览器决定初始宽度有很大的帮助。

但是，最后，div是CSS可以被浏览器缓存的好方法;而表没有缓存!

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.

Google gives very low priority to text content contained inside a table. I was giving some SEO advice to a local charity. In examining their website it was using tables to layout the site. Looking at each page, no matter what words - or combination of words - from their pages I used in the Google search box the pages would not come up in any of the top search pages. (However, by specifying the site in the search the page was returned.) One page was well copy written by normal standards to produce a good result in a search but still it didn't appear in any of the first pages of search results returned. (Note this text was within a table.) I then spotted a section of text on the pages which was in a div rather than a table. We put a few of the words from that div in the search engine. Result? It came in at No.2 in the search result.

为了回应“表格更慢”的论点——你考虑的是渲染时间，这是一个错误的度量。通常情况下，开发人员会编写一个巨大的表格来完成页面的整个布局——这大大增加了要下载的页面的大小。不管你喜不喜欢，仍然有大量的拨号用户。

参见:过度使用ViewState