And if TABLES are good for multi-columns of data, why shouldn't tables be good for just a single column of data like in iPhones, Androids, Blackberry's and other mobile and tablet devices?

1. CSS Suck T-Shirt - Yes, CSS is so messed up, you can even buy this clever T-Shirt to express your frustration with CSS-P.
   
   
2. Is CSS condemned to suck forever? – carwow Product, Design & Engineering – Medium - 2017
   
   
3. How to Center in CSS | Hacker News - Ooops! A web page designed to generate code so you can "center" stuff in css!!! Wow, never needed an entire web page generator to tell how how to do centering with TABLES!
   
   
4. Are we taking CSS too far? - Matt Ward on Aug 14, 2010.
   TABLES - Bloat – All the necessary table tags fill up your HTML, making it big and ugly and an absolute nightmare to manage. I used to use tables back in the day, and I hated it for this very reason
   
   CSS- Bloat – All the necessary CSS declarations will really bloat up your style sheets, making them an absolute nightmare to manage. Wait, didn’t I just write those same words? Also, depending on how the icons are achieved, you might find your HTML bloating up with extra elements too.
   
   
5. Table Layouts still win over CSS layouts in 2012 - Feb 1, 2012
   The longer I am blogging and the more often I mess with my html layout (which is done in CSS) the more I come to realize that while CSS is a solution for HTML layouts but it is not a good solution and it has in my opinion completely failed to address the layout problem.
   
   
6. Tables – The Secret Behind Every Simple CSS Form - Software As She's Developed - Feb 12, 2007
   Tableless forms are painful. Every time I start trying to create them, I wonder why I am going through the motions. Some vague sense that it will be “more accessible” and I’ll be able to tick an abstraction of a “web standards-compliant” box. But really, these table-less constructs are supposed to make page authoring easier, not harder. In the case of forms, table-less CSS makes it much harder.
   
   
7. Creating Forms: Pure CSS vs Table Based - Vert Studios
   While I have always been an advocate for table-less layouts with semantic HTML, designing forms with pure CSS has proven to be a complete pain in the butt.
   
   
   
8. CSS sucks for layout - JSMonroe - Bytes.com - Aug 2008
   ...If web can't do this simple thing, then I don't care what you say, web CANNOT do layout.
   
   
9. Tables instead of DIVs - StackOverflow - Aug 27, 2008
   [Read the Last Paragraph of top voted comment]
   "So if we go back and look at it in terms of table vs div, it's my opinion that we've actually come to the point where div is over-used and table is under-used. Why? Because when you really think about it, there are a lot of things out there that fall into the category of "tabular data" that tend to be overlooked. Answers and comments on this very web page, for example. They consist of multiple records, each with the same set of fields, and stored in a database table. The exact definition of tabular data. So an html table tag would absolutely be a good semantic choice to layout something like the posts here on StackOverflow. And this same principle applies to many other things as well. "
   
   
10. Our Pointless Pursuit Of Semantic Value - Smashing Magazine - Nov 11. 2011
    - The b, strong, i and em tags are equivalent to the span tag as far as the specification is concerned. And so are some of HTML5's tags.
    - Mark-up structures content, but your choice of tags matters a lot less than we've been taught for a while. Let's go through some of the reasons why.
    
    
11. CSS and Tables: The hype and the trends - Blog Corner - April 2011
    Moreover, Professionals still argue the use of tables for the layout of pages on the Web, despite the fact that this goes against current standards. They argue it to be a pragmatic approach ? if not their preferred options.
    
    
    
12. Why CSS should not be used for layout - Feb 2, 2009
    CSS is really cool. It is useful for a lot of things. The basic idea of separating content from presentation is sound. But when it comes to layout, the design of CSS is fundamentally flawed. Use tables instead.
    
    
13. CSS and the meaning of life - Feb 2, 2009
    Why mince words? I confess, I am not a CSS expert. I all but admitted as much in my piece, which is why I based my example on code that was not written by me, but by someone who holds themselves out as being a CSS expert. Maybe I'm so idiotic that I can't even tell a real expert from a snake oil salesman. But I submit that whatever the case, I am an very good company. The mere fact that the CSS wars have gone on for as long as they have is ample evidence that there are a lot of people out there who do not find CSS a model of intuitive clarity.
    
    
14. Microsoft madness and IE 8 - Feb 13, 2009
    Gaaaaaaaaahhhhh! There must be something in the drinking water in Redmond. Presently I test in IE versions 6 and 7, and also test without a DOCTYPE to put those browsers into quirks mode (to emulate visitors from Google cache). Now comes IE 8 to add to the mix. IE 8 has not just two modes, but - count 'em - three. There's standards mode and quirks mode, just as with IE 6 and 7. But they encourage visitors to switch to "Compatibility view" - ostensibly to emulate the buggy IE 7 behavior. But this mode is not the same behavior as IE 7, according to this post from isolani.co.uk. Double your testing time estimates, folks.
    
    
15. If you hate positioning with css, raise your hand... - Java Programming - May 4, 2008
    I always end up with nothing but trouble trying to position divs with css that is a BREEZE to do with tables. css positioning is supposed to be the layout savior yet my experience with it always ends up with headaches - try something, see if it works, try something else, set if it works. and then make sure it's ok in all browsers and make sure it works with html strict, bla bla. Anyone else have these frustrations as well or is it just me?
    
    
16. IE6 is still the most used browser in the world - May 27, 2010
    Because IE6 is the default installation of Windows XP, IE6, nine years later is still the most used browser in the world
    slashdot talk
    
    
    
17. Google Search on web standards - This is search on the snippets of the below article as the original article at apcmag.com is not there any more. But it did attract a lot of anti-blog postings and it was one of the most FUNNIEST!
    
    
    The World Wide Web is not enough - just as funny
    Web standards. They're big, dumb, and they don't work. Yet, they persist. Why?
    
    
18. Opera study: only 4.13% of the web is standards-compliant
    The Web is fragmented, complex and always evolving.
    By Ryan Paul - Ars Techna - October 15, 2008
    
    
19. CSS and Tables; The war continues - the comments are insightfull
    Ajaxian - November 13, 2008
    
    
20. Give Up and Use Tables - Site totally devoted to tables, challenges CSS
    November 13, 2008
    
    
21. Why not tables? Is CSS really better? - each have their drawback,
    but tables can provide a perfectly flexible and fast website
    August 23, 2007
    
    
22. - Ten reasons why CSS sucks
    Even though there is a "standard" and some browsers partially adhere to the standard to truly be a useful standard you need two things: Predictability and Consistency. CSS has neither.
    Greg's head - September 25, 2006
    
    
23. CSS Repeats Itself - CSS has a noble goal: separating content from presentation. The sad truth, though, is that the implementation of that goal is unbelievably hideous.- September 25th, 2006
    
    
24. Why CSS Bugs Me
    The first problem is the idea of "cascading." It means what it says: falling—as in falling apart.
    PC Magazine - 07.12.06 - John C. Dvorak
    
    
25. User Centered Manifesto - October 10th, 2005
    ..."All development regardless of CSS, Flash, DHTML, Perl, yadda, yadda will always think of the needs of the user first before any other agenda."
    
    
26. MIcrosoft thinks CSS2 is a flawed standard and will not be fully implementing it in IE7
    eWeek's Microsoft Watch - Wednesday, March 16, 2005
    
    
27. SlashDot Comments on IE7's CSS2 support
    slashdot - Saturday March 19, @02:19PM
    
    
28. The standard is what the majority uses. Not what some "I wanna make it harder so I can look like the head cheese fruitcake..." - June 21, 2005 (Original Thread)
    
    
29. If I'm joe-sixpack I don't give a damn about CSS 2.0 compliance
    - SlashDot - Saturday March 19, @02:22PM
    These are things that matter to the end user. If I'm joe-sixpack I don't give a damn about CSS 2.0 compliance. Hell, I probably don't even know what CSS 2.0 is. The only person who actually cares are the people making the web-sites, and those people are us and in terms of market share we typically sit at the one-percent noise level...
    
    
30. Very Insightful Strategy by Microsoft to NOT be CSS2 compliant
    - SlashDot Saturday March 19, @02:24PM
    Actually, this may help MS more than you would think. Sites will continue to be written for a non-standards-compliant browser, which makes them less likely to render correctly in the browsers that do follow standards. If enough pages render incorrectly when somebody is trying out Firefox or some other standards compliant browser, they'll give up and go back to IE.
    
    
31. ....Next time around, I'll be going back to tables. - April 23, 2005
    When I re-designed Nuketown last year, I went to a CSS-only layout and I regret it;
    
    
32. [Link not accessible due to password, sorry]. -->Web Standards wear No Clothes - November 11, 2005
    Despite all the noise they make about a semantic web, I don't think people who believe tables are evil have content as their primary concern. .......
    Real designers think in grids, not slabs of concrete. I'm all for making the web accessible, extensible, and defensible, but I don't see where replacing nested table tags with nested div tags is an improvement.
    
    The hacks involved in doing something like building a simple footer in CSS are so numerous and ugly that from this alone one must suspect that those who suggest these methods in lieu of a single table have something different on their agenda, an emotional investment in an idealized final solution formed independently of the way the real world works. Their arguments about saving file size and bandwidth are equally inane. We should optimize our tools for the way we operate, not the way we imagine we might be helping out the Apache kernel or the Unix file system.
    
    
    
33. [German only] - Using Tables to Layout Forms - November 5, 2004
    While there are many great ways to build forms using pure XHTML and CSS without any tables, many forms are much more complex than what this method allows. I firmly believe that there is a place in forms layout for using tables intelligently for several reasons.
    
    
34. The Rare Case for CSS Positioning - July 8, 2004
    Some would say that CSS and HTML are decoupled, pointing out sites like the CSS Zen Garden. If you can replace the CSS to get a completely different layout, then CSS and HTML must be decoupled. To me, that's like saying a human heart is a standard interchangeable part… after all, if I find one of the right size and blood type, a group of skilled surgeons can replace the human heart in only 12 hours.
    
    
35. [Page no longer available] - View from Up Here (Jan 28, 2004)
    Winner: Tables for site layout
    Loser: CSS for site layout
    Have you SEEN what that sh** looks like in a non-IE browser?
    F***, I wish I had those hours of my life back. Screw you, W3C, I‘m sticking to tables. At least I can get things to line up with ‘em.
    The author tried to convert site to CSS on Dec. 18 2003 - [page no longer available]
    
    
36. Cascading Style-Sheets Suck (Sep. 1, 2003)
    I loathe CSS with a passion.
    Correction. I loathe the fact that every web browser supports a different, incompatible subset of CSS2. W3C standards were supposed to save us from having to test pages in every single browser under the sun
    
    
37. Mental Discharge: Tables vs. CSS (12-15-2003 )
    Tables and CSS both have their places, to each their own. However, anyone who gets all bent out of shape over people using layout tables instead of CSS needs a kick in the face, like the f****** W3C needs a kick in the face. "HERE IS THE STANDARD, BUT WE CANNOT ENFORCE IT, AND EVEN IF WE COULD, NO BROWSERS ADHERE TO THE STANDARDS WE CREATE, BUT YOU SHOULD DO IT ANYWAY
    - Yuuki Aiba
    
    
38. [Link no longer accessible] - CSS: Table vs CSS layouts - .net - UK's Favorite Internet Magazine
    by Sean Conran (April 2004)
    This month, discusses the pros and cons of using a CSS-only page layout instead of HTML tables. . It is often the case that trying to achieve visual consistency in CSS styling across browsers can be a real headache. At least we can rely on table structures to be far more consistent in their display across browsers, old and new.
    
    
39. " Layout tables considered valuable" - Barry Pearson


40. "Reflections on CSS Positioning" - Barry Pearson


41. And CSS continues to suck...


42. CSS Sucks Bollocks - April 01, 2005
    
    
43. Are you using Tables or CSS-P (Positioning Cascading Style Sheets)
    for your web page layouts?


44. CSS Hacks Suck
    
    
45. CSS is hard - many good points are made , also funny
    
    
46. CSS is BS - funny
    
    
47. Brad Sucks - "I pretty much want to kick whoever invented CSS in the nuts."
    
    
48. CodeBitch - CSS sucks
    CSS doesn't work anywhere any way consistently so why bother pushing its use? Point what doesn't work, tell web browser companies what they are doing wrong and beg/plead/demand they fix it.
    
    
49. Okay...CSS sucks...well, browsers do, anyway...
    I spent the entire weekend wasting my time trying to get a CSS-based three-panel layout to work properly. I finally digressed to a two-panel layout, and now it looks okay in IE and sucks in Mozilla Firebird. If you people would follow the standards, this would be easy!!!!!! Grr....
    
    
50. Am I the only one that thinks CSS sucks? - You just need to know the limitations with regard to the browsers that you support. It's best to consult some of the many CSS compatibility charts out there.
    
    
51. css rendering simply sucks in existing browsers :( by Stas Bekman
    ....the whole layout goes kaput.
    
    
52. CSS Sucks - The David Channel
    
    
53. CSS vs Old School Pages - I always use a hybrid of old school tables with an external stylesheet. It's the only way to fly. Pure css sucks at table simulations for good cross browser compatibility. Real tables work so well cross browser, its spooky (only thing that *does* work equally!) It's understandable why Brett does it that way. - amznVibe Oct 2003
    
    
54. CSS - It's not as cool as some people make it out to be.
    After delving deep into CSS design and learning all the ins and outs - I don't get why people are trying to use CSS instead of tables. I know a bunch of people will jump on here and post all the "benefits" of using css, but the benefits just don't outweigh the hassle you go through trying to get your layout to work.
    
    
55. I'm sick of CSS - All this stupid box model hacks and quirks with the browers is getting very annoying. So much so, I have reverted to tables with a little CSS for a site I'm working on. WHy? Because tables just work!
    
    
    
56. ...and using a combination of tables and css. You'll be much happier
    
    
57. If using CSS doesn't simplify your work, then you need to simplify how you're using CSS, even if that means (shudder) using tables for your layout - May 13, 2004
    
    
    
58. Purists, please read. January 2, 2005
    The following text appeals strongly to me.
    My sites actually are compliant with all the important browsers.
    
    
    
59. The Future of CSS and the end of 3.0 - Aug 19, 2007
    We have all been frustrated with CSS over the years. The implementation has been spotty across the browsers, and it has all but died off. IE 7 stepped up and fixed a lot, even if some weren't happy with how far they got. CSS 3 has been out there for quite some time, but apart from Opera, other browsers have selectively implemented their pet features. Some have done interesting non-standard work too: -mypetfeature-foo-bar.
    
    
    
60. CSS Wont Drink Me Under The TABLE - July 18, 2004
    ...Just don't ask me to throw out the baby tables with the CSS bathwater.
    Nah gonna do it.
    
    
61. CSS Considered Unstylish - or why CSS sucks - December 14, 2004
    
    
62. Tables My A** - Tables takes me a few minutes; CSS takes me easily 10 times as long - May 14, 2004
    
    
    
63. I am an extremist CSS fanatic
    mike d said:
    Which is probably why your website is so damn ugly. css and standards design fascism is like telling all artists to use only a certain type of paint; a musician that all music must be written purely for piano. A sort of web design taleban, all praise mighty Eric Meyer and death to the unbelievers, their use of tables damns them for eternity......................
    July 10, 2005
    
    
64. Some Things Are Just Easier with Tables - May 12, 2004
    ....Overstating the Benefits
    
    
65. MSDN Channel 9 - CSS Overrated?
    
    
66. Tables? Oh, the horror! - I am suggesting merely that in some cases, it might make sense to explore a layout table. Again, I do not mean three-level-deep nested tables rife with the required colspans. I mean a light table with two or three columns to keep a layout together, sans all other presentational markup.- May 15, 2004
    
    
67. "On Table-based design… I’ve seen that design in every browser I can, under Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms, and it looks practically the same. It’s rock solid. Score one for the tables." - May 27, 2004
    
    
68. ...and in my experience I have found that carefully using tables produces more cross browser compatible designs than using divs carefull - June 2004
    
    
69. I’ve been working on a very slight redesign and thorough rewrite of this website. I pretty much want to kick whoever invented CSS in the nuts. - April 2004
    
    
70. CSS is moribund - November 2004
    
    
71. CSS hacks are starting to break - His message is that CSS hacks will start to break in IE 7, and I fully agree. - quicksmode.org - September 2005
    
    
72. IEBlog - Microsoft - CSS hacks that work in IE6 will not work in IE7
    
    
73. Be prepared for a lot of frustration! - I personally use a hybrid of table/css; - July 2005
    
    
74. Highlight of these pages
    
    
    
75. Tables vs CSS - May 7, 2006
    I've wasted about 4 hours trying to be anti-Table and use CSS-P (CSS for div tags and layout) and have just gotten extremely frustrated - not because I've had to learn CSS for the 4th time in 3 years, but because of the browser compatibility issues.
    
    
    
76. [link no long available] - CSS fans, **cough cough** W3C....believe that CSS is the answer to everything. The fact is that load on the browser is not truly affected by tables or css positioning
    - April 03, 2006
    
    
    Still the tide is turning....
77. Web Standards wear no cloths November 11, 2004
    
    
    
78. Stop Hacking, or be Stopped - April 23, 2006
    And the problem will amplify over time, as more incremental updates are released, and the browser share fragments. In one sense this won't be 1998 all over again with its 85 different versions of Netscape 4, thanks to browser auto-updating keeping most users current. But, not every user will keep up to date. I can't count how many times I ignore the update nag message on my own machine, so they can hardly be blamed.
    
    
79. DIV VS Tables - Mar 17, 2009
    Forum discussion on Div VS Tables, Pros and cons of both
    
    
80. IE8 rendering problems - browser fault or genuine CSS fault? - May 28, 2008
    
    
81. Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong - Book Review - Feb 3, 2009
    That can’t be true, everything I know about CSS is wrong? Lies! Sitepoint.com it is all lies! Well maybe not all lies but I guess you would have to read the book to find out and thus I will give a review about what this book is about and see if the title of this book is correct or not.
    
    
82. IE8 and Wordpress - Mar 19, 2009
    Well, IE8 must be standards compliant, because all of the hacks I wrote for Internet Explorer make my pages look like sh*t now. Make sure all of your IE conditional tags say "if IE7 or lower" or else your page will look stupid. For instance, due to IE7's lack of support for :after, I had a really messy hack to put ellipses at the end of truncated content. Now IE8 displays two sets of ellipses - one for standards-compliant browsers, and one for my IE hack. Being Microsoft software, it will inevitably have a swarm of bugs, security holes, and code bloat, so I'm going to keep using Firefox. However, IE8 is theoretically nicer to developers and fully supports CSS 2.1.
    
    
83. Opera chief: Microsoft's IE 8 ‘undermines’ web standards - Mar 17, 2009
    Opera Software chief executive Jon von Tetzchner told The Reg that while Microsoft is headed in the right direction, IE continues to undermine open standards on the web. The fundamental problem is Microsoft's decision to allow users to continue to view billions of old pages optimized for non-compliant IE 6 and 7 that would otherwise be scrambled in IE 8.
    
    
84. Microsoft to Release IE8 Today - Mar 20, 2009
    I'm afraid as a web designer I’ll now have to code for IE6, IE7 and now IE8. What a mess. Why can’t we all just use Firefox and forget it. But then I'd be out of a job. ;-)
    
    
    
85. Comment by Bevan - scroll down to Bevan long comments at 2012-01-09 10:45:36
    It seems people are confused about the difference between CSS tables and HTML tables. CSS tables, for lack of a better term, were never designed to be used for displaying tabular data. They were created to provide easy to implement site layout control only. If you need to display tabular data then use a table, an HTML table. To suggest otherwise, or even compare the two in this manner is absurd......
86. Never Use HTML Tables, Ever! | Jason Graves - July 7, 2014
    We don’t need to use tables, we can get table like functionality cleanly with none of the hassles of using true HTML tables especially with regard to JavaScript and CSS, and here’s how.
    (This CSS hack to make DIV's into tables implicates the sillyness of CSS Extremist's)
    
    
87. CSS vs Tables: The Debate That Won't Die - Vanseo Design - September 17, 2009
    One of the debates that never seems to go away in the web development community is that of css vs tables and which is better to use for the layout of your site.
88. Tables versus Divs & How to style tables in Weaver - Weaver Themes Support Forum - April 2014
    Tables are good at what they are really meant for, lots of data that need to be presented in several columns and multiple lines.
    
89. html - Why are people making tables with divs? - Programmers Stack Exchange - - March 2015
    But I still don't get it. Why are we doing this? If you need a table, then just make a blasted <table> and be done with it. Yes, even if it's for layout. That's what tables are for - laying out stuff in tabular fashion.

    The best explanation that I have is that by now everyone has heard the mantra of "don't use tables for layout", so they follow it blindly. But they still need a table for layout (because nothing else has the expanding capabilities of a table), so they make a <div> (because it's not a table!) and then add CSS that makes it a table anyway.

90. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard? | Hacker News
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19021719
    
    
91. html - Why aren't we supposed to use <table> in a design? - Webmasters Stack Exchange
    https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/6036/why-arent-we-supposed-to-use-table-in-a-design/6037