Tables for Layout

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Tables are often used to get control of a layout.
Using things like rowspan, colspan, cellspacing and cellpadding, one can control how things appear in a page. This is a kludge.
Yahoo with table border=0 / Yahoo with table border=3
The same can be done to break up an image and allow rollovers of images. Harrah's.com

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