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The amazing part is that it's all divs, spans, CSS and very smooth. Congrats!

Well, nobody uses <table> to render a table because it has so much baggage that it is incredible slow (implicit calculations for width/height for every cell etc.).

These super fast super browsers we have today? You can kill all of them if you render a table with around 500.000 cells.

So yes, many people use divs and spans for the same functionality.

Wait, can these@ same browsers render a table made of 500,000 divs + css without crashing?

Yes, it is much more performant. They would also render it as a table, but it would be excruciatingly slow.

Problem is the bloated standard for html tables that requires many calculations. This is why any browser-excel is implemented with divs.

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