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CSS

Posted by Gregor Murray
Gregor Murray
3,414 Points

this video uses <table> for layout. it thought this was bad practice? is there a reason why this is okay in this case?

this video uses <table> for layout. it thought this was bad practice? is there a reason why this is okay in this case?

1 Answer

Tom Couillard
Tom Couillard
19,866 Points
Tom Couillard
Tom Couillard
19,866 Points

Hey Gregor, from what I understand table used to be the defacto layout technology before things like floats, flexbox, etc became available in more recent iterations of CSS. I believe the age of some of these tutorials may also be showing also. Tables should only be used for displaying data and not for layout as of CSS3 and you are right tables as layout is considered bad practice nowadays.

Let me know if you have any questions!