sorta urgent: plz read

[Booooze]

hi, its me again,

is there an alternative to tables for CSS? because i have got a lot of "table" like lining up i have to do, and i knwo your not supposed to use tables. it wont be on my front page tho. but im talkin, like opne page with a lot of tables, (well maybe depends on my hits). is there or should i use tables.

plz reply, I need to get my site up and running very soon. thx

[ray326]

Sure. Most of the page layout stuff done with tables can be done with divs. Other things that often are handled with little tables (like nev links) can usually be done with appropriately styled lists with div helpers as needed. A List Apart is a good starting point for learning these things and I personally think Zeldman's book, designing with web standards, is a must read.

http://www.alistapart.com/
http://www.zeldman.com/

[PeOfEo]

Tables should be used for tabular data only in my opionion (sometimes I might seem like a hippocrat, but I assure you its just laziness, thats why I have not redone my site). So a news feild or a table with members or maybe some other content will work w/ a table but as far as menus go, I would think it would be better to put the links in one div and use the <br> element to create the line breaks because thats what it is thee for. I say use css and for your block element the good old <div>. Tables and css are the only practical layout methods these days, frames are out dated and a bit inaccessable.