kiwanji - 9:13 pm on Jan 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

I was reading in the web design forum about using CSS instead of tables. I have never taken the time to learn much about CSS but I do understand they would be helpful for things like font styles and sizes, etc. What I did not understand was the discussion in one of the threads on that forum (http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/3981.htm) about not designing pages in structuing tables any longer. The ideas being presented were that you could design using CSS instead of tables for a variety of reasons. One was that XHTML does not recognize tables? I was very confused by that.

I guess my problem is that i use structuring tables on every page I create to lock information into place on the page. I even teach my students this. My resoning is - why would you allow a user to change the way your page looks after putting so much effort into creating it's display? If you do not put content into tables then the user can resize the page and paragraphs will get "squished" and the careful design of your page will be out the window.

So, when do we start learning CSS? I don't think I can make the leap, especially after hearing all these problems with cross-platform useage (why would anyone use Netscape anyway?) :)

Thanks!