The Anti-hero of CSS Layout – “display:table”

Re:The Anti-hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” by pbhjpbhj on Monday October 27, 2014 @10:41AM (#8515678)

>"for a long time HTML table tags bidirectionally implied table layout" //

You're right, tables are fine for tabular data. But it was always thus.

Perhaps if you were a html noob and hung out listening to people pissed off with table layouts you'd get confused and think all tables were bad (you definitely want a graphical layout helper app though as keeping track of them in code is a PITA).

It was

    table tage |- table layout V tabulated data

rather than just

    table tage |- table layout

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Re:The Anti-hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” by nitrogen on Monday October 27, 2014 @12:31PM (#8516495)

I've worked on HTML that was written by someone who cargo culted all of the tables into rows of Bootstrap columns, for tabular data. It happens.

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