Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Table Presentation

As for all matters of presentation , style sheets are the preferred method for changing the appearance of tables and offer more fine-tuned control than HTML attributes. See Chapter 22 for more information on CSS specifically for tables.

That said, there are a number of non-deprecated attributes that may be used to control cell spacing , dimensions, borders, and alignment (although, even most of those have style sheet alternatives). This section takes a look at those presentation-related attributes and also points out the preferred CSS methods.