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When Netscape introduced tables in Navigator 1.1, it was an important leap for Web designers. Until then, their collective ability to design innovative pages was extremely limited. There was no way to create columns of text, and control over image placement was extremely crude.

Although tables were created with the spreadsheet metaphor in mind, the specs were designed to allow flexibility (borders and margins could be adjusted; cells could vary in width and height), and innovative designers soon realized they could use tables to push graphics and text around. They're now commonly used to gain precise control over image and text placement, and to create site navigation systems.

Now integrated into the HTML 3.0 spec, tables are supported to different degrees by the latest versions of all Web browsers. Some browsers, including Mosaic 2.0 and earlier versions of Internet Explorer, don't support vertical alignment within table ce lls. Mosaic 2.0 also fails to support <td width>, which lets you determine the width of table cells.



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