Topic: div vs table

[ygfperson]

What's the best option for putting a sidebar or a title on a page? (see title of thread)

[ober]

div.  Do you wanna be more specific?

[Mike]

I'm a big advocate for not using tables to layout.  That said:

Getting divs (especially nested divs) to format correctly across many browsers can be a royal pain.  Some browsers (such as IE) do not use certain CSS properties very well or at all.  This can make it very hard to get the exact same layout.

[ygfperson]

why are div's better than tables if there are various incompatabilities?

[ober]

Because you can do so much more with CSS and divs than you can with tables and CSS.  Layouts can be completely changed at the drop of a hat with divs, where with tables you have to physically move the rows and columns.

[Major_Small]

I vote for div's as well.  While div's can be tricky to get working across browsers, tables are just very icky.  I put them right below frames when I think of how websites should not be layed out.

tables are great for what they are: [small] tables.  don't make your entire site design a table though.  While it may be easy, it's ugly.  and yucky.