The CSS display property can be the bane of the web designer’s life as support varies from browser to browser, making it all a bit more complicated than it should be. In this article I will show a quick and simple way to get the display:inline-block declaration rendering consistently across all major browsers.

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With the rise of CSS and standards, the mere mention of the word ‘tables’ amongst web designers is likely to bring a reaction as if you just swore to your grandmother. For some reason the backlash towards table-based design - which ten years ago was the defacto standard way of designing complex page layouts - has become so passionately fought over that web designers can forget that tables still play an important role in modern web design. Here are three examples:

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