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HTML table elements are not the solution. They are a convenient hack that happens to be the best alternative in 2008 because the majority of users is still on an IE browser.

In fact, it is quite possible to get table-like layout behavior while using semantically correct tags. This is accomplished through the various display: table-type CSS properties.

As support for IE6 fades this long awaited dream will quickly become a reality.



IE7 does not support display:table either, so the long awaited dream is still far away. Reportedly IE8 beta supports is though.




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