But you don't choose between HTML tables and CSS tables - they are independent concerns, HTML is semantics, CSS is presentation. HTML table elements just have d

But you don't choose between HTML tables and CSS tables - they are independent concerns, HTML is semantics, CSS is presentation. HTML table elements just have display:table as the default style (in the default browser style sheet). You can override this in a style sheet as with any other style. And conversely, you can apply display:table to any element regardless of HTML semantics. It is true older browsers had partially hardcoded presentation so you couldn't always override the default CSS of certain elements (table elments and form controls were especially notorious for hardcoded presentation). But I believe this is not an issue in modern browsers.