Street Level: Designing Page Layout Tables

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by Robert Crooks Most Web developers use HTML tables for their page layouts, and probably will continue to do so for a long time. Cascading Style Sheets may eventually give us a better alternative, but the promised day of cross-browser support for sophisticated CSS positioning and widespread abandonment of those old browsers still seems pretty far off. In the meantime, let's look at a few techniques you can use to get the most out of those layout tables. One Table or Many? A typical Web...n

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