In the mid 90′s, when the world wide web was becoming popular, tables were the foundation of any good website. They were used for lists, images, border, tabular data, and layout. With the introduction of CSS and positioning, tables lost the limelight and became synonymous with old and dated. First, a bit of background info. The “avoid using tables for layout” blurb can be found in Introduction to Tables in the HTML 4.01 Specification: Tables should not be used purely