table cell baggage

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Do table cells cause unessesary weight? I am under the impression that a liquid website is the best possible type of website to make for a number of different reasons. Does a liquid site take up less room as well? If so is there a way to simulate a table using css?

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[txbakers]

You can indeed make a columnar layout with CSS, and there are some excellent examples and tutorials here. Just search our site for Fluid Layout or Tables CSS.

In my humble opinion, I prefer fixed tables to fluid CSS for most fixed situation. When I'm concerned about the final layout, I will plot everything carefully and force the user to adjust his window size or screen resolution. If they go away, I'm not hurt.

As to code bloat, I would think it's about the same. CSS layout can be very large, and tables can be very small.

It's been a while since a knock-down drag-out discussion on this issue, maybe this one will fire up the debate again this month.

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well, i wouldn't hate it. This is a great issue to discuss. As far as i can tell there seems to be alot of advantages to a fluid layout (faster loads, possibly less code bloat, easier for search bots to sort through, enjoyed by all resolutions) but i have yet to hear anything about non css layout that makes it more beneficial (other than the simplicty of making a table in a WYSIWYG editor). My goal is to build a site that achieves exactly what i want in terms of layout, and do so with the fastest possible load time. Experiance seems like it would do the most talking, so if anyone has any contirbutions to this discussion please enlighten us.

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