> one is a table the other pretends to be a table How about "one pretends to be a layout, and the other is a layout"? I don't understand well what you are say

> one is a table the other pretends to be a table How about "one pretends to be a layout, and the other is a layout"? I don't understand well what you are saying, but: > a practical example: i look at each row and set rowspan for duplicate values. a series of rows might have week 22 as their first cell and multiple with monday as their second. This seems to be a case of using a table as a table, which is fine. You should use tables when you are trying to represent tabular data.