Whether your a fan of Microsoft or not, web developers worldwide can take today and rejoice in Microsoft's release of Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft first confirmed that IE8 had rendered the Acid2 test correctly on December 19th, informing developers that CSS2 was fully supported by the browser. This news provides all sorts of relief for the endless amounts of hacks developers have had to implement over the years to fix quirks in both IE6 and IE7. 

Among the many advantages provided by the new IE8 is a major improvement in how we layout web pages using CSS. IE8 supports several new values for the display property including several table-like values. table, table-header-group, and table-cell are just a few of them. These values allow you to layout DOM elements in a grid resembling a table using rows and columns. These display properties act like their HTML counterparts but let me stress they are not the same. HTML Tables are for markup of tabular data. CSS Tables are meant to layout regular DOM elements in a table-like manner.