Roger Johansson has the clearest article I’ve yet seen on how tables should be used when marking up tabular data.Bring on the tables: There’s a lot more to tables in HTML and XHTML than just rows and cells. Much more. Especially if you want to make them accessible.
Read about th, caption, summary, scope and more. This one is definitely for the reference file. There are even links to pages with more detail for more complex tables.
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