What would be a good use for tables in html?

What type of information would be best delivered using a table?

Public Comments

  1. As placeholders. Like if you want to be able to show stuff in a grid, but don't want to show an entire grid, you could stick items in certain cells of a table and leave other cells empty.
  2. displaying data or ensuring that data stays formatted in a certain way for different people on different resolutions if used correctly. Your best off looking on www.w3schools.com Depends on what you are trying to achieve and what you are going to use them for.
  3. Displaying lists of data, calendars, positioning groups of links in a menu page, breaking up a form into columns to keep it on one page without scrolling or just as a grid to display items like images. I have often used a three column table to leave a blank area to the left, a short form in the center column (often login screens) and another empty column. Juggling with the sizes you can position the form wherever you wish. Not particularly elegant, but one page generated like this from one php script can produce dozens of similar forms for different data entries just by passing a database table name in a get, post or session variable.
Powered by Yahoo! Answers