Table layout tricks and their equivalent in CSS.
It would be nice to be able to use CSS for positioning and not have to worry about older browsers. However this is rarely the case. One exception is this site.
Before tables were incorporated into <html> there was no way of dividing the page into discreet areas. Tables were developed for displaying tabular data but within approximately 20 seconds web designers were using them to lay out their pages. What follows is some of the techniques that I have found or developed over my time as a designer. Most of them are common knowledge I know, but bare repeating.
