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i was just trying to help someone and i got one upvote followed by few downvotes because i suggested a solution with table: How do you select half the remaining width using css?
what i suggested was:
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
TD.left
{
width: auto;
}
TD.main
{
width:1000px;
}
TD.right
{
width: auto;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td class="left"> </td>
<td class="main"> </td>
<td class="right"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
Thats pretty fast answered. Tables were used(for layouting) before CSS was somehow broadly supported by webbrowsers.
The intended use for tables is row wise representation of strucutral data.