Redrawing of Internet Explorer Tables vs Div/Span tags

[sherpaa]

This is a performance issue:

Does anyone have experience with the redrawing of the browser page
when you have updating dynamic data.... does IE redraw slower with
tables or is it better to use Div/Span tags... or a combination....
the CPU is running at 90% for the redraw...

 

[Edwin van der Vaart]

This is a performance issue:

Does anyone have experience with the redrawing of the browser page
when you have updating dynamic data.... does IE redraw slower with
tables or is it better to use Div/Span tags... or a combination....
the CPU is running at 90% for the redraw...

IMHO use a combination of css and div/span to design web page. Use only
tables for tabular data e.g calendar, etc. Because the file size of
table designed web pages are much larger then css+div/span web pages, so
that table designed web pages are redraw much slower than div/span web
pages.

 

[brucie]

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Does anyone have experience with the redrawing of the browser page
when you have updating dynamic data.... does IE redraw slower with
tables

generally yes

or is it better to use Div/Span tags... or a combination....

if it is stuff thats supposed to be in a table then use a table with the
presentational goodies in css.

e.g. no masses of this icky poo stuff:

<td align="left">
<td align="left">
<td align="left">
<td align="left">
<td align="left">

just use: td{text-align:left;}

the CPU is running at 90% for the redraw...

that must be one hell of a huge table