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Here are a couple reasons:

- At one point the design becomes a nightmare to maintain. I've worked on some web apps, where we had pages with 15 levels deep tables in tables in tables ...

- Separating the semantic information in .html from the design in .css. Can help with SEO, screen readers, cashing.

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15 level deep? That's nothing. Try http://www.telsiai.lt/ I did not count the nesting level, but the total number of tables according to my bookmarklet is 348. Yep, we do have some wonderful CMS over there…

plenty of divs and spans out there on major sites that nest so far down it looks almost like a fractal.

I'm currently maintaining an application that uses Coldfusion and has a table based layout. It's a nightmare.

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