Re: CSS is simple, stop making it hard

I came across Martijn’s post on Bubbles today and would like to take this opportunity to answer his question… I can already hear you complaining that you shouldn’t use tables for layout. Why exactly? CSS is simple, stop making it hard Or: how to embrace 1997 CSS blog.brixit.nl All of us (with 40+ years under our belts) used tables in the late 90s to achieve the holy grail of layout … HEADERNAV | CONTENT | ADSFOOTER … BUT … back then, on the one hand, we had no other options, and on the other, there was simply no other display device available apart from the monitor on our computers under the desk! All layouts were in landscape format with a resolution of at least 800 x 600. So it didn’t matter that we had rigidly fixed the positioning of the layout elements directly in the HTML using rows (TR) and cells (TD). However, with the advent of tablets and smartphones, the width available in portrait mode became far too narrow to accommodate three side-by-side sections that were still…