Comments on: The myth of Tableless design http://www.codediesel.com/html/the-myth-of-tableless-design/ /* PHP & MySQL Journal */ Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:39:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andrew Cobby http://www.codediesel.com/html/the-myth-of-tableless-design/comment-page-1/#comment-1538 Andrew Cobby Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:35:35 +0000 http://www.codediesel.com/?p=2045#comment-1538 That's a cool cartoon :P You make a very valid point, but I do use tables for tabular data. The main downside of tables is the inconsistent usage with JavaScript. If you want to update a TBODY with the response of an AJAX request, you need to build each TD individually, then add that to a TR then append to your TBODY element. Writing to the innerHTML property is against the W3C spec. That’s a cool cartoon :P

You make a very valid point, but I do use tables for tabular data.

The main downside of tables is the inconsistent usage with JavaScript. If you want to update a TBODY with the response of an AJAX request, you need to build each TD individually, then add that to a TR then append to your TBODY element. Writing to the innerHTML property is against the W3C spec.

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