VirtualMV/HTML/Basic/Layout/Tables

Use
The table tag should be used to display tabular data, rather than as a layout technique, though there are many web sites that do. Layout should be achieved via the Div tag and Cascading Style Sheets.

Pros

 * Search-able by all search engines without causing confusion
 * Only one page needs to be downloaded
 * Can be used to create separate sections on a page
 * Very easy to create a page layout

The cons…

 * The whole table needs to be downloaded leading to slower downloading
 * If used for navigation - as opposed to frames - links need to appear on all pages so pages tend to be larger
 * Tags can be messed up in different browsers
 * A large static site can be difficult to maintain if there are lots of links on each page