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Re:Why must you laugh at my back end? by webnrrd2k on Monday September 05, 2011 @01:33AM (#2961271)
It's a mystery to me why the standards bodies didn't just take the code for tables and make an copy of it, just using a new name like "grid" or "layout" or something.
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Re:Why must you laugh at my back end? by eurleif on Monday September 05, 2011 @01:39AM (#2961283)
Because HTML is for expressing semantics, not presentation. If you want something that displays like a table, but isn't, you can do that with CSS using display: table.
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