Depreciated <table> tag?

Recently we were told at uni that the <table> tag in the latest w3 standard specification has been depreciated. is this true?

I have looked on the web for details but can't find it, we have been told to build web sites with style sheets and without the use of the <table> tag.

Any help would be great.

i would think not

I seriously doubt they'll remove the table tag..

The table tag wasn't really meant for changing the looks/layout of a website.. it was simply meant to show tabular data.. that's why I think it'll stay

some of it's attributes, however, has been deprecated to encourage the use of stylesheets

No offence, but your uni is full of morons. Based on what your said, they want you to use layers. but there is a still many bugs with layers. also layers that work on IE wont work on NS.

Therefore i concluded that you tell your uni that they are dumb. Without tables, we would be going back to old skool style, with center aligns and funky backgrounds. seriously i dont know how they can say that there wont be table tags lol. Whats next databases that dont store data?

No, I agree, I have never heard of it.

Although admittedly we are building for browsers above version 4, I still have not read anywhere that the <table> tag has been depreciated.

Though I may have missed something.

Read URL

The only element is says is depreciated is the align element

Are you sure they didn't mean designing site without the use of tables, as opposed to saying it's a deprecated tag?

I've seen sites designed without tables, and was quite impressed.

Yup.. I've made a design only using <div>'s and css Pretty cool.. too bad it looks like total **** in NS4.79

... There are ways around that, but some have chosen to ignore NS4.x completely. The only downside to addressing those browsers with CSS, is that the sides look like they used to back in the day... ugly!

lets just get rid of netscape, it causes to many headaches when developing.

Well Wired.com (pretty damn big site) has switched to a completely XHTML compliant and tableless design.

The site isn't pretty, but totally usable in NS 4.7

Guess they figured that any morons still using NS 4.7 are used to seeing sites not displaying properly for them anyway.

wow, how do you make a site like that without tables

Go to wired.com and see for yourself.

Basically you have <div> tags that defines blocks of content, and you use CSS to alter the style of it, most of the CSS is CSS2, that's the main reason why NS4 doesn't show it properly.

This way, not only does it make it way easier to change the style of the site, the size decreases as well 'cos you don't have heaps of <tr> <td> thoughout the source.

I'll see if I can find some links to articles when I get home.

tables are still the best and most effective way to create a site. while layers are good, i feel that they are not compatiable enought to use atm. If everyone on bloody netscape would at least upgrade to the latest version, then i would concider using them, but people on older browsers still cause problems,

errrr

damm, everyone upgrade to IE6 eheh, would make HTML alot easier.

Hu? Hey, I am no Netscape fan neither, but developing just for a browser that is not within w3 standards (IE) is a waste of time in my own opinion and a burden amongst developers across the internet. Any site developed within standards should have minimal problems accross many many browsers...

IE is pretty standard compliant, in the sense that if you make your site W3C valid, there's pretty good chance it's gonna show up the way you want it to in IE (and Mozilla), it's when you use IE specific stuff (colour scroll bar just as an example) that screws up other browsers, but that's obvious.

But for NS4, you can have an XHTML and CSS compliant site, and NS will not show it properly, especially the CSS stuff.

Oh, and here's the thing about the redesign of wired.com

http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsou...ired-interview/

I can't seem to locate the pages that taught how to create tableless sites.

<table></table> for layout = BAD!!!

<table></table> for tabular data, ie. site stats = GOOD!!!
Just make sure you include caption and header information for the disabled surfers.

I've been designing in XHTML Strict with CSS2 for several months now. It's much easier to maintain and reduces the datasize of pages considerably!

Brother are thee nuts,

No tables !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every decent looking site uses tables and lots of them too. Well i'll admit that the main reason is because of the netscape turtles.

A site without tables, cant look good, the commercial side of the internet is mostly about appeal. Now when you remove that which is the single most effective t