The Anti-Hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” (2014)

Re:The Anti-Hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” (2014) by olavk on Saturday February 11, 2017 @12:34PM (#13623629)

But you don't choose between HTML tables and CSS tables - they are independent concerns, HTML is semantics, CSS is presentation. HTML table elements just have display:table as the default style (in the default browser style sheet). You can override this in a style sheet as with any other style. And conversely, you can apply display:table to any element regardless of HTML semantics.

It is true older browsers had partially hardcoded presentation so you couldn't always override the default CSS of certain elements (table elments and form controls were especially notorious for hardcoded presentation). But I believe this is not an issue in modern browsers.

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Re:The Anti-Hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” (2014) by gsnedders on Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:11PM (#13625427)

> But I believe this is not an issue in modern browsers.

I think the last browser that saw widespread use in any market with that issue was NN4. In some markets, Opera [some version; 7?] with the same issue will have been a problem much later than NN4. Really, this is to say: this hasn't been a concern for well over a decade at this point even with fairly generous browser support matrices.

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