What happened to HTML table tags?

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Published on 2011-12-01T07:22:02Z Indexed on 2011/12/01 10:24 UTC
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I started to code HTML in 1998, and in that time I was used to code a lot table tags, playing with tr and td, I learned many things analysing the source code of many portals on the internet with notepad and Microsoft FrontPage, the latter, aw, how many tables overlapping others, it was fun, I loved that time.

However, I abandoned web programming for almost seven years and this year I decided to see what's the web programming today likes. Completely different, there are not table tags anymore, it's full of div and span tags.

Why happened ? What are these new tags and why nobody codes in table tags anymore ?

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