Is CSS better than tables?
 

I've heard that CSS is better than tables because it is easier for SE to crawl. Has anyone seen a significant difference between using tables and CSS?

CSS is preferable to tables in almost all respects but none of them relate to SERP's at this point.

Why is it better?
 

That's pretty much my question. Why is CSS more preferable than tables?

Lighter, cleaner and more flexible. You can position different elements to spiders first.

Read this:
http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/

IMO it does-if set up properly it makes for a hell of a lot less code to crawl through-thus a higher ration of content ;)

Plus-site wide changes are cake :)

css and tables
 

I use them both for example
<table class="table1" cellspacing="0">
where the table1 is
{
border: 0px;
padding: 0px;
width: 95%;
background: #f3f3f3;
color: #000;
}

I recommend using both unless you are a pro in css. Since you could really screw up a layout with 100% css in a crossbrowser enviroment.

SE's do like less tables and it is far easier to manipulate. But I think the above combination woks the best for me. Safe, controllable, same amount of code as div tags 100% css.

Any comments?

CSS has had my attention lately. A friend and I have been playing with new versions of my HP in all CSS. Even the NavBar, all of it. We have tested it in Firefox, Netscape and IE and only really had minor issues in Firefox. The rest went just fine.

CSS is the future of my websites. As stated above, cleaner, lighter and easier for me to read as well as for the spiders because there is less of it.

CSS is the Bess
 

I prefer CSSin all design,

Here are a couple sites to get recources.

http://www.sitepoint.com
http://www.csszendesign.com
http://www.cssbeauty.com

These are really good inspiring sites.

In a few months after not knowing any css I have beaan using it for these sites,

http://www.torahstudy.info
http://www.rahebchiropractic.com (under cons.)

Hope these help.

CSS creates alot more speed in setting up pages and takes away alot of headaches. Tables suck!

Can I get an amen! Tables do stink. CSS is paving the way to easier and cleaner sites and getting better all the time (or is it that I'm learning more about it all the time?).

Tables are nice for what they're intended for (tabular data). For anything else it's rather limiting.. kinda like using frontpage or dreamweaver as opposed to a text editor - easier but fewer options.

This was one of my main reasons for moving to a pure CSS based site. Other than the design and usability improvements, we've cut the code by 1/3.

For example our header used to contain the logo and 4 icons, 4 links all layed out with tables = 67 lines of code. Now, it's 7 lines. No kidding.

And, if the user has a images turned off - or the images are slow to load, they can still navigate our site. That's a huge plus.

yes as said CSS makes your site cleaner as your code is reduced and from SE point your text should be more compared to your code and by using css u can control this..

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I've got to tell you the truth, I find that I like tables better, and making templates that I can use across the board are much easier for me than pure CSS. I do use CSS for some of my sites, though, as it pertains to the text and background color of the pages, as I tend to like to change those colors from time to time. The book I used to learn CSS actually taught that as the best way to go, though it also showed how to create a page purely with CSS; just confused me to no end.

I think it's funny that this thread was revived. There seem to be alot of concerns that have been raised with ie7... I don't know if the original css wasn't validated for the ones experiencing the display issues but there don't seem to be any with the sites that were designed in tables.

I resemble that remark! :p

I haven't yet found a reason to use CSS. Tables work fine for me for now. Perhaps in the future I'll need to change but not today.

well discussion on this trend! so its ideal to make CSS codes than HTML codes? what i mean is much more preferred CSS much oky?

lol!! Sorry, thats funniest typo I've seen for a while!

It made me remember an occassion that had me in hysterics. My good lady works as a beauty consultant in a department store, and one Saturday afternoon, someone asked her where they could find the caving sh*ts. lol!! I'm told she frequently gets asked for an excruciating scrub - which after picking myself up off the floor I assumed was something similar to an exfoliating scrub. rofl!!

Ahhh... I do enjoy the honest mistakes! :)

CSS make your code smaller and easy to handle in website updations but we can also use them both....

CSS is a new tread for making website by using the <div> its table less and much more faster in terms of loading a site.. it also a SEs freindly..

CSS is really better in the sense that it is more organize and definitely spiders like it more.