CSS is almost always quicker, easier and more powerful than equivalent presentational markup. The problem with tables is that Internet Explores does not suppo

CSS is almost always quicker, easier and more powerful than equivalent presentational markup. The problem with tables is that Internet Explores does not support the "dislay:table" property, which is the CSS equivalent to table layout. So if you want a certain kind of grid-like layout and you want to support Internet Explorer, you have to choose: 1) either emulate the layout using CSS constructs which were not designed for this purpose. 2) use tables However this is not a shortcoming of CSS, it is a shortcoming of Internet Explorer. display:table has been part of the CSS standard for 10 years. I wrote an article http://olav.dk/articles/tables.html http://olav.dk/articles/tables.html to describe the specific context where it makes sense to use tables rather than CSS. In all other cases, CSS is better.