Speed of loading tables

Whats the quickest way to get something on the page?

[bluebottle]

Hi,

Am I right in thinking that if you have your website in table the entire table has to load before any content appears on the screen.

If you were to have your page title in a table above another table containing the content would that load completely, showing any graphic within it, before the table below it began to load?

Hope that isn't too garbled!

Cheers
Peter

[troels nybo nielsen]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Peter. You are describing one of the most important reasons why some people consider it a bad idea to use tables for design purposes!

[bluebottle]

Hi,

Thanks for your help

[troels nybo nielsen]

I guess I should be a bit more constructive in my answer. It seems to me that you have three options:

1. Forget about design. Good old 1996 style with <p> and <hx> as the only formatting. Very fast but also very boring.

2. Learn to use tables as good as possible. Some very competent people say that it is actually possible to use tables and still have very fast pages.

3. Use CSS [webmasterworld.com]. Lots of people learned CSS because they got frustrated with tables.