I think many people is confused by "semantically a table" because they think of a table as a certain visual representation of data, which also how the word is o

I think many people is confused by "semantically a table" because they think of a table as a certain visual representation of data, which also how the word is often used. The semantic definition of table in HTML is a bit more subtle - it is a set of data structured in two dimensions. (Like how the days in a monthly calendar is grouped by week (horizontally) and by day-of-week (vertically)).