[trojan13]

Ah, the 90s - a time when <table> was the answer to every web layout question. Miss aligning your text? <table>. Need a fancy menu? <table>. Creating a full website? Nested <table>s! Who needed CSS when you had rows and cells to hack your way through design? Good old days of <td>-ing everything!

[unsupp0rted]

Still true for email layout in 2024

[perilunar]

Still true for layout in Hacker News in 2024

[cstuder]

But don't forget that you'll have to add the `<font>` tag in _every single cell_.

[andruby]

It was all TDD back then. TD-Driven design.

[cyberax]

I still love tables. They are so awesome for dynamic design. The support column and row spans, alignment, weights.

And CSS is still way more complicated than good old tables.

[toyg]

That's because Tables actually map to how digital imaging works: dividing an area into little squares and deciding what to show in it. The screen does it, the driver does it, the window manager does it, the desktop primitives do it... and then you get to the browser screen, and suddenly you have to figure out a byzantine system of self-mutating shapes.

I was an early CSS supporter but man, didn't the boffins screw up that one.

[mmcgaha]

Exactly and this is why CSS grid has changed my life. CSS grid is tables on Wheaties.

[arkh]

And now we get some more semantically correct way to do it.

<div class="row"><div class="col">

[cqqxo4zV46cp]

Hang on. Those don’t look like auto-generated React classes!

[DonHopkins]

<table> was the Robitussin of the web.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvyHEijg59A

[icedchai]

Sadly, I still find using table-based layouts easier to understand than most CSS today. I grew up with the 90's internet...

[urbandw311er]

Ah cmon, take a few minutes to gen up on flexbox it’s not too hard and you’ll thank me.

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

[icedchai]

It does seem decent. I don't do much front end work these days (and thanks!)