Using Tables to Do Page Layout

By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com Guide

This technique is no longer recommended. If you want to do layout in XHTML, you should use style sheets rather than tables.

There are two primary tricks to using tables as your page layout:

1. Map out your design on paper first.
2. Don't turn off the border until you are satisified with the page.

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• The Easy Way to Create Complex Tables for Page Layout
• Map Out the Design
• Draw Your Page on the Graph Paper
• Create a grid of your page elements
• Examine the structure of your page
• Translate your grid to HTML
• Turn on and off the table border

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