Opinions on using tables to display images

[Daniel T]

A few times since I have learned to use CSS for layout, I have wanted to display a set of images. Say, I have nine images I want to display in a block of 3 images x 3 images. I've been wondering if using a table to display these images would be proper at all, even though they are not exactly tabular data. The code used for displaying them with a table would be much shorter than styling <div>'s and the likes. And if the table was styled with CSS...

Is it ok to do that, or not?

[fredmv]

Nope, this is also wrong application of a table. CSS and lists do the job just fine.

See: <http://www.vladdy.net/demos/gallery.html>.

[Daniel T]

Ah, good old Vladdy

Merci.

[Ben Rogers]

Wait... french and english together? CANADIAN!!!

Kind of on the same topic, but kind of not... tables are fine for calendars (for blog archives), right?

[Sam]

absolutely

[Ben Rogers]

Alright, good- otherwise I'd be in trouble.. O.o Hm... Is it also okay if you have a master table (the year) with each row containing 3 tables, each a month..? Or should I <div>ide the months by 3, instead of using a master table...?

[Sam]

I've never seen a semantically correct situation in which nested tables is required, I might be wrong though

[Ben Rogers]

I'ma hold back the obvious comment and just switch over to <div>s.

[rhsunderground]

forgive my ignorance, but what exactly IS a nested table?

[MstrBob]

A table inside a table.

<table>
<tr>
<td>
  <table>
  <tr>
  <td></td>
  </tr>
  </table>
</td><td></td>
</tr>
</table>

You get the idea...

[Ben Rogers]

RHS, your limitless ignorance CAN'T be excused. Sorry.

[rhsunderground]

goo....that code IS scary.

[Ben Rogers]

Heh. Now that public access is (somewhat) back: http://151.203.70.109:81/archives/ is the page in question.

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by rhsunderground
forgive my ignorance, but what exactly IS a nested table?

You need to clean your ears about, we have been ranting about nested tables for quite some time now

Well... knowledge is power.

[Ben Rogers]

The thread rapist is right. Start reading around more often.