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This practice generated tremendous code
bloat.
With the widespread adoption of CSS and the ability to control a website??™s visual structure
with a single style sheet, the technique of table-based page structure became antiquated.
Today, designers are once again employing tables for their intended purpose: displaying
tabular data.
The HTML 4.01 spec offers site builders a rich library of tags for rendering table-based
information. To produce the most accessible document possible, you must mark up a table
with more than the standard and .
Use your head(ers). In addition to the data cell tag , there is also a table header tag
that sits inside a . These table headers, marked up with , provide column headings
to better define data. Here??™s an example:

Region	2003	2004	2005
West Coast	30%	32%	41%
East Coast	29%	12%	19%

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In addition, the , , and tags further define the sections of a large
table.


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