Before CSS became popular, tables where used heavily, not just to show data, but also to layout page. As people started to use CSS for layout tables become the

Before CSS became popular, tables where used heavily, not just to show data, but also to layout page. As people started to use CSS for layout tables become the enemy. Tables became bad, and CSS became good. So much that some people where using divs to show data for a while just because they hated tables so much.