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Oct. 13, 2006 at 4:56pm
Into the Nested Table Abyss
At least it's clean code!
While I was taking some time to evaluate a 3rd-party application for a customer I took a peak at their site's HTML. I was pretty shocked when I found some very strictly organized code that contained gobs of nested tables. At one count I found a structure that was 10 tables deep! I suppose since enjoying creating clean mark-up and mostly table-less designs for the last few years I've forgotten my roots.
Warning: Don't click to enlarge the following unless you have a strong stomach.
Table-heavy layouts used to be big and I was certainly guilty of a few back 'round the turn of the century. Nevertheless, it's pretty shocking for me to see pages laid out like this today. They are even kind enough to include plenty of inline styles so we know what's what color. Yikes! I'm pretty sure I speak for everyone here in the office when I say, "Good riddance!"
Tables are good for propping food up to where it's easily eaten not for propping up modern web designs.
Posted in Coding Techniques, CSS, XHTML by Kevin Freitas
Comments (2)
Yes, unless of course you're displaying tabular data. Then tables are your best friend. Anyhow, Shine on you crazy diamond.
1 | Left by RR Anderson | Oct. 17, 2006 at 4:47pm
Kevin says:
No doubt. Following the food analogy, tables are like a segmented food tray to help keep one bit of info separated from another. That's the ticket!
Thanks for dropping by the blog. Cheers!
2 | Oct. 17, 2006 at 8:42pm