Kornel Lesinski wrote:
The point is that it is not layout table.
Of course it's a layout table. You're using a table so you can lay out your labels next to your inputs all nice and neat. It doesn't contain any data yet, just a bunch of form inputs. It's not data, it's a means of laying out a data input interface!
It has semantic value. It's a kind of table that can have summary, caption, headers and contains repeating sets of data.
I don't think that has anything to do with it as you could easily argue that certain types of site content could also benefit from these things. Forms already give you the ability to associate labels with inputs, group sets of form controls together and give them a cation. You don't need a table to give form controls semantic meaning.
hairs and getting semantic, isn't all information on a website really just data? So why can't present it all using tables?
Because it is not *tabular* data, unlike the practicular form that this discussion is all about.
Why? How can you say that a bunch of empty form elements are "tabular data" even if there isn't any data? At least a page of news stories actually contains something that could reasonably be described as data?
When you apply for a bank load do they give you a "table of blank data" to fill in or do they give you a "form" to fill in?
Table: An orderly arrangement of data, especially one in which the data are arranged in columns and rows in an essentially rectangular form
Form: Document with blanks for the insertion of details or information
They seem distinctly different things to me.
Andy Budd
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