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Originally posted by CookieRevised
As I said, div it is almost always used in combination with stylesheets (heck you almost can't do anything with it if you don't).
Had a look at the XHTML 2.0 specifications? You're EXPECTED to use stylesheets for all of your formatting. This is the way things are headed.
Here are some interesting reads:
http://phrogz.net/CSS/HowToDevelopWithCSS.html
Why tables are bad for layout:
http://phrogz.net/CSS/WhyTablesAreBadForLayout.html
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
The method of floating stuff and using multpiple layers to create "tables" with div's is more a hack then anything else...
I'm not saying tables are evil and should never be used - they should only be used when you're using tabular data (like alot of things on forums are). There is no point using DIV's to recreate tables in CSS, but I wouldn't call it a hack - it's just stylesheets.
Using Semantic HTML promotes usability with websites, presenting data in an organisational way (for example, turn css off here and when the formatting is lost, the page becomes harder to read), reduces page size and blah blah blah
