When you create a file in a word processing program like MS Word or Corel WordPerfect, you have complete control over the layout and can be certain that the intended reader will see exactly what you see. When you create an html file, on the other hand, there is no such guarantee. The file you create may look great on your PC with your 1024 X 768 monitor settings but look absolutely terrible on a computer where the settings are 800 X 600. Tables can solve a lot of the formatting problems. When you create a page in html, whether you press the space bar once or 20 times, you still only get one space.
Tabs are useless.
Rather than get into why this is so, let s focus on what we can do to get around this. If you put text in a table, it will let you create the same look as having nicely tabbed pages. You can also use the tables to control how wide your pages are. As we mentioned above, there is no way to control what screen dimensions the person viewing your page has, but you can use a table to make it look almost the same for every viewer. When you create a table, you set the width by either a percentage or by the number of pixels.