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Nested tables and absolute element positioning

By Steve Monas - Last updated: Monday, June 14, 2010

Nested tables make for slow loading web pages. The browser begins to render the page after it has found the entire table it has to load. Therefore, the deepest table will have to be identified before the entire table is loaded. The advantage of nested tables is that absolutely positioned tables can be placed within [...]