Even when people first started using HTML tables to do their page layout, they realised that they were misusing the table tag and were creating a lot of work for themselves in maintaining their pages. The only reason they did it was that no other mechanism for placing content side by side worked in browsers [...]

While using phpmyadmin to manually create the database tables for your script may initially seem like a good idea there are many reasons why writing a separate script to define your tables is a far better idea. Defining Tables

You can’t span rows or columns in a CSS table but where you need to achieve that result in your page layout you can nest one table inside another to achieve the same end result as this fifth tutorial on layout tables demonstrates. Nesting Tables

The fourth tutorial on CSS layout tables shows you how to set up a layout having multiple rows of content. Multi-Row Grids

The simplest use for layout tables is to create multiple columns that really do have the same height rather than using one of the faux columns approaches to make it look like they are the same height when they really are not. Creating Columns using Tables

The second tutorial on layout tables discusses the circumstances where you might consider using one. Using CSS Tables

Starting a new series of CSS tutorials dealing specifically with the correct use of tables for web page layout. Tables for Layout

The table cells you want to merge are not always next to one another. Here’s how to merge them when they are one above the other. Merging Rows

While few tables have footers at the bottom of each column, the next thing in your table source after the column headings when you do have them are the footers. The reason for this is that when printing tables browsers are supposed to print the header and footer on each page and so need to [...]

Having placed the basic HTML tags for our table into the (X)HTML in yesterday’s tutorial, this second tutorial looks at how we can start to add the content into the table. We start by placing the headings for the columns. Column Headings

There are a whole range of tags available for setting up the display of tabular data in your web page. This is the first in a series of tutorials on how to properly define semantically correct tables in your (X)HTML. Tables

While not a desktop publishing program, Microsoft Word does allow some control of content positioning. Here’s how to put your content into columns. Creating Columns in Word