Some of the information here is rehashed from my old HTML site and some of it is new. Simple as that. But tables take on a number of sizes and disguises.
Tables are the reason most web sites have boxy designs.
It's easy to make boxes of text and color, graphical boxes, search boxes, and anything else rectangular. It's difficult to make anything curvy on the web, because anything with curves still has to fit into a rectangular format in the end. Table Basics First of all, to give you an idea of how tables are so frequently used without being visible, I took Yahoo's front page and revealed the borders of their tables. Each cell contains a bit of text or a graphic and has a few attributes. That's why tables are one of the most powerful constructs for web design.