> If you think of a table as a discrete coordinate system then it's fairly obvious. Unfortunately tables did not work like a coordinate system, since cells wou

> If you think of a table as a discrete coordinate system then it's fairly obvious. Unfortunately tables did not work like a coordinate system, since cells would grow to accommodate their content. Combined with spacer gifs, tables could be used to generate whitespace padding and aligning content, but it was very tricky to use tables for exact positioning.