Thread: What is better to use "div" or "tables"?

Hi all,
I would like to know some doubts that I have. I have observer that some websites are using "div" and other "tables".
What is the difference between those 2? What do I get or what results, if I use "div" or "tables" in my website.
I would like to hear some professional opinions.
Thanks a lot to all,

You should use "divs". "Tables" are tables and you shouldn't use them to design a web site.

Websites used to be built using tables but as css improved, more standards were put in place and semantics became more important then it moved towards divs. tables should now only be used for tabular data.

Originally Posted by IntegratedS

Hi all,
I would like to know some doubts that I have. I have observer that some websites are using "div" and other "tables".
What is the difference between those 2? What do I get or what results, if I use "div" or "tables" in my website.
I would like to hear some professional opinions.
Thanks a lot to all,

Hi,
Div based website is better than Table based. It has lots of advantages such as:
- You can control the website alignment by CSS
- The loading time of DIV base website is faster than Table base website.
- In Div, designers can make a single change to the CSS and it will modify the entire website.
- Div base website is Search engine friendly.
- It saves the usage of bandwidth.

But for Div base layout, you should have knowledge about CSS. Otherwise, you can’t control the Div base website errors. The other issue is it takes more time to design.

Hi dear friend.
Over the last several years, developers have moved from table-based website structures to div-based structures. Hey, that’s great. But wait! Do developers know the reasons for moving to div-based structures, and do they know how to? Often it seems that people are moving away from table hell only to wind up in div hell.

Div needs more expertise than table. Div is better for SEO. It is powerful to do content placement or positioning. You place the content closer to the top of your HTML codes, but it would be rendered on the browser in the same place. Moreover div loads faster that table.

There are two ways to designing a website. First called “table” and other called “div”.

There are some advantages and disadvantages of table structure. The first one is that you can create your website easily. But the disadvantage is that the coding goes to huge and that’s why the loading time of your page is increase. Using table structure your coding become complicated.

But nowadays div structure become very popular and it has many advantages over table structure. The first one is that your coding becomes decrease. So your coding would be under your control. Because of decreasing of coding some other person can also understand your structure easily. For the SEO benefit your page size would decrease and increase page load time.

So finally div style is better than table structure for your website design.

Table is simple but div is best for designing Purpose.

For my point of view Div is best choice for creating website. By using div you can group elements to format them with in a styles. Table required less effort but need lot of coding.

Advice's Experts should use "DIV" when to design to friendly for spider. I am not expert but i always get information from expert another.
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Originally Posted by Curtis80

Hi,
Div based website is better than Table based. It has lots of advantages such as:
- You can control the website alignment by CSS
- The loading time of DIV base website is faster than Table base website.
- In Div, designers can make a single change to the CSS and it will modify the entire website.
- Div base website is Search engine friendly.
- It saves the usage of bandwidth.

But for Div base layout, you should have knowledge about CSS. Otherwise, you can’t control the Div base website errors. The other issue is it takes more time to design.

Yes i do agree with this

My experience is that tables are not used to lay out more people to switch from
tables to div/CSS layout.

In SEO a tableless design seems perfect because search engines have problem in crawling table based designs. So its better if you use div based web design.

Originally Posted by jacksamwhite

In SEO a tableless design seems perfect because search engines have problem in crawling table based designs. So its better if you use div based web design.

I have noticed this too. That is why so many new web sites are moving away from tables with CSS and toward div tags with CSS. SEO is the heart of this migration.

Div tag is better for table.....

Offcourse div. Because HTML5 doesn't support table, so always use div