It's probably because you are only dealing with the simple situation right now where you have few elements to display. But once you get into a more advanced lev

It's probably because you are only dealing with the simple situation right now where you have few elements to display. But once you get into a more advanced level of user interface design, you will regret using tables because there are so many blocks of elements needed to be fit in. Or, imagine building Facebook/Twitter using <table></table>.