Spent 6 months building a website with tables before someone told me about CSS

I started learning HTML from this old book I found at a garage sale and it showed everything using tables for layout. So for like half a year I was building page after page with nested tables, thinking that's just how you do it. Then I posted a question on Stack Overflow about why my site was so slow to load and somebody asked why I wasn't using CSS flexbox. I had no idea what that even was. It took me a whole weekend to redo my first real project but man the difference was night and day. Did anyone else learn from an outdated resource and have to unlearn everything later?

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wade4389d agoTop Commenter

Hold up, tables for SIX MONTHS? Dude that is brutal. I cant even imagine the headache of trying to resize a page or make it work on a phone with all those nested table rows and columns. I bet your html file was like 5000 lines long just for one page. Did you ever accidentally delete a </td> and mess up the whole layout? That alone would have made me quit coding forever. Props to you for sticking with it that long before finding out about CSS.

samf959d ago

Yeah, I totally thought tables were fine until I tried building a mobile site and it broke everything.