layout - DIV's vs. Tables or CSS vs. Being Stupid

Question

I know that tables are for tabular data, but it's so tempting to use them for layout. I can handle DIV's to get a three column layout, but when you got 4 nested DIV's, it get tricky.

Is there a tutorial/reference out there to persuade me to use DIV's for layout?

I want to use DIV's, but I refuse to spend an hour to position my DIV/SPAN where I want it.

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Answer 1

There's the Yahoo Grid CSS which can do all sorts of things.

But remember: CSS IS NOT A RELIGION. If you save hours by using tables instead of css, do so.

One of the corner cases I could never make my mind up about is forms. I'd love to do it in css, but it's just so much more complicated than tables.

You could even argue that forms are tables, in that they have headers (labels) and data (input fields).