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It
takes computers a few moments (or longer) to figure out and display tables
correctly. You can add hints to the computer as Dave Raggett explains
in section 10.13 of Ragett on HTML 4.0. In addition, keep these
two ideas in mind:
- Be sure to have some text, at least the main headline of your page,
outside the table so that it displays immediately while the computer
mulls over the rest of the table. On this page, for example, the "<html>"
and "Speed Your Display" headers are done outside any table
layout so that they will display immediately.
- Instead of designing one table with cells that include everything
on your page, try to design your page using several smaller tables.
On this page, for example, there are separate tables for the top and
bottom navigation bars and a separate table for the text. I could have
one complex table with the text row spanning several columns, but that
would take much longer for computers to display.
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