CSS for Tables

Only two of those retained attributes are fundamentally structural: the colspan and rowspan attributes in the td tag.

The others are presentational; they control the table's styles.

• So, CSS can be used instead of those others and probably should be.
• Although we still have the option to use them under the XHTML 1.0 DTD, you might want to develop the discipline of using CSS instead of them to prepare yourself for the near future.

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  They are being eliminated from subsequent versions of XHTML, beyond the current XHTML version 1.

  They are also being dropping — all of them except the two fundamentally structural ones — even from the forthcoming, revised version of HTML, according to the W3C, Absent Attributes, "HTML 5 differences from HTML 4," Working Draft (9 June 2008).

  The W3C recommendation is for us to use CSS.