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Why reinvent the wheel when you can use one known framework(e.g. blueprint) than will be instantly recognized by other designers?

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Firstly, the likelihood alone that any given CSS designer who follows up on your project actually understands the framework is not high. These frameworks make a very small subset of CSS people write. Certainly not a large enough subset for you to make that assumption by any means.

Secondly, this is a poor analogy because we're talking about 3 CSS classes- by no means a "wheel". I am curious as to what circumstances you would really save any measurable time using a CSS framework.

Why reinvent <table> ?

You shouldn't, table is not an element that should be banned from the web it is actually extremely useful. The problem with table is when you use it for layout it creates some unwieldy markup that it is better to just use css.

Some designers however seem to use divs for tables and it just looks silly and ends up being overly complicated.

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