Tables: What are the pros and cons of the CSS display:table family versus plain old HTML <table>?
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The consensus used to be that HTML tables should be used for displaying tabular data, but never used for layout. What then is the use-case for the display:table* properties? How do people use them in the real world? What advantages do they have over <table>? Should display:table* be used for positioning layout?
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Answer:
In my experience, using display: table helps some browsers with their box model. For example, if you want to vertically align a link in a box, you can set the container to display: table and the link box to display: table-cell and then apply the vertical-align: middle property to it.
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Other answers
That consensus is still valid. But if you are presenting tabular data there is no reason why you can't use TABLE/TR/TD markup as before, with CSS properties for appearance. These elements have appropriate display styles by default. This also gives you ideal "graceful degradation" behaviour and will work on non-CSS or older browsers (including, say, Lynx).
Toby Thain
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