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Jonathan Grieve
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Jonathan Grieve
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Posted by Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points

Tables for Layout

Now I know what you're all thinking when you see this title. You don't use Tables for Layout and of course, I agree.

But in the video I just watched in a PHP course, it was recommended to layout form elements on a page with HTML tables as a means to put them where you want them.

Laying out form elements is always something of a headache for me because I don't use tables to layout form elements. I rely on the CSS which is a little bit "hacky".

Am I going about this the wrong way. Does laying out input elements count as Tabular data so I should use Tables in this instance?

Thanks :)

1 Answer

jaredcowan
jaredcowan
11,808 Points

Using table layouts is a bit archaic.

You can see that Bootstrap uses HTML5 form elements to style their forms. See code and examples here

Hope this helps.