It's a long-standing debate in the web design community. With most coming down on the against side. Not going to rehash it here, but this SO thread is a good pl

It's a long-standing debate in the web design community. With most coming down on the against side. Not going to rehash it here, but this SO thread is a good place to find arguments for/against: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/83073/why-not-use-tables-for-layout-in-html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/83073/why-not-use-tables-... I've written plenty of table-based layouts. However I can't remember anytime within the last 5 years where I've needed to use a table layout. My main complaint against table-based layouts would be styling. The order of elements in a document determines where on screen a table cell renders. A position floated div/section/aside can be changed with a single float rule, or clear onto it's own line. I find responsive/adaptive designs easier to implement and maintain when avoiding tables.