Just a small example, as I didn't see it mentioned in other replies. Often when I write stylesheets for a site, I like to have a default table style. Type, po

Just a small example, as I didn't see it mentioned in other replies. Often when I write stylesheets for a site, I like to have a default table style. Type, possibly border/spacing, padding, etc, depending on the site. Even if there are multiple visual "types" of tables to display, typically they will all have a common set of margin/padding at the least. If you wanted to use a table for layout in a site with default table styles, you would have to have a whole set of style resets to get it back to zero layout, before adding your custom layout stuff. This is ugly, and a pain. One point of using a div for layout style is that it is always "zeroed", and you can assume when styling one that there's nothing that needs to be overriden.