Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Chapter 22. CSS for Tables

Tables have gotten a bad reputation in web design circles because of their notorious misuse as page layout devices. Although CSS now offers alternatives to tables for presentation purposes, it’s not necessary to kick tables to the curb entirely. In fact, they serve an important purpose: the presentation of tabular data. Using CSS table properties with the full set of HTML table elements allows tables to go back to their original calling, but with more sophisticated tools for handling them.

This chapter explains these CSS 2 properties for controlling table presentation:

caption-side	border-spacing
table-layout	empty-cells
border-collapse	display (table-related values)