Is CSS better than regular table codes?

Question from CSS beginner

[kriskd]

Feel free to point me to a different thread if this has already been addressed.

I'm just wondering if CSS is considered "better" than table codes for creating tables. And if it is considered better, why?

Thanks,
Kris

[SethCall]

I would suggest checking out www.webmasterworld.com, and use the search feature :). I hear they have TONS of threads already dealin with this issue

[co2net]

In short... yes and no.

Bit longer... you still can't do certain screen-based design with CSS that can be achieved with tables (I should know, just spent 3 days solid trying! :( )

However, CSS is the present and future, and learning to use it will only give you an advantage. now. It will eventually become more powerful and go way beyond standard html table.

Tables in XHTML are intended for tabular data, nothing more. But the real world ends up mixing tables with css layout at present.

[driven_snow]

Purists will claim that css is the cure for what ails you.

But unless you are willing to dedicate youself to learning, and you may be, the switch is neither easy nor particularily advantageous in most cases. ( ego aside )

Tables are still immensely usefull, and using CSS with tables is a powerfull sythesis.

At least this is my opinion, but I've only been working with css for a few months now.