Tables?

[xxxEntourage]

So far I've been reading alot about the death of tables in XHTML. But I've been looking around and I cant find anything that talks about replacing tables. Could someone explain to me what is used instead of tables? CSS im assuming?

[felgall]

If you are talking about tabular data then the correct thing to use is a table. That is what the table tag was created for in the first place and its use for displaying tabular data is still correct.

Where tables should not be used is with non tabular data where the sole purpose of the table is to set up the layout of the page. That was done in the past because it was the only way before the introduction of CSS to create a non linear layout.

[xxxEntourage]

So then how is it done with CSS? Just the positioning of the <DIV>?