Hi Anton,

Thanks for your suggestion. However, <table> wasn't suppose to be used for laying out elements and positioning them on a webpage, rather than used for presenting tabular data. Table will makes your site heavy and takes a longer time to load. It also restrict you from freedom of layout manipulation and it requires extra caution while in responsive mode.

In order for a browser to render a page built with tables it needs to read the code on the page twice. Once to understand the structure and another time to present it. That extra pass at the code makes table-based layouts take longer to display. With a simple table structure the extra time might not be noticeable, but as the structure becomes more complex with more and more tables nested inside each other it is noticeable.

It is true that structuring your layout using tables may ease your development process, however, the usage of table will double up the development process. For example, you'll need three sets of tags to present some content as opposed to the one set of div tags.

[gist type="php"]
<table>
<tr>
<td>Some content here</td>
</tr>
</table>
[/gist]

Compare to:

[gist type="php"]
<div>Some content here</div>
[/gist]

Thanks. I hope this helps.