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by tambourine_man 1724 days ago
If you are trying to allure front end devs, maybe don't use tables in you example.

To my taste, all of that is way too overcomplicated. I don't know why we need to make writing and maintaining web pages more complex with every year that goes by. To my mind, this industry looks completely derailed.

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What would you use to represent tabular data like a list of T-shirt orders as in the example? That should be an HTML table. Using tables for positioning is bad in front end. Using HTML tables/sections/headers for document data structure is exactly what HTML is for.
Unless it's two columnns only, tables don't work well on mobile. You end up having to undo in CSS a lot of properties that TD, TH bring by default.