>You make it sound like table display was added after the failure of other layout methods. Not so - table display was there right from the beginning when CSS fi

>You make it sound like table display was added after the failure of other layout methods. Not so - table display was there right from the beginning when CSS first added layout (CSS2 in 1998). Yes I mis-formuled it. >It was IEs failure to implement it for nearly a decade that meant nobody was aware of or could use it for many years. No it wasn't only IE, display table was also broken in Firefox and Opera. There were plenty of layout that you couldn't obtain in CSS but worked well with HTML tables.