Preface

"Table manipulation?" you ask. "But why would anybody be using tables? Aren't tables in HTML bad?"

Tables get a bit of an unfair shake nowadays. They used to be the sledgehammer of HTML. Page layouts were done fully in tables. It used to be the right tool for the job. Actually, it was the only tool.

Then CSS started to gain popularity. Tables for layouts were replaced with divs, floats, and positioning. CSS was certainly a better option for page layout by orders of magnitude. It allowed for more modular design. It became easier to reuse page fragments. It became easier to update and change different areas of the page without having to modify a monolithic containing table and in many cases various nested tables. Tables quickly became shunned ...

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