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Posted by Calvin Castillo
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Calvin Castillo
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 2,494 Points

What is the purpose of using multiple tables?

I am learning how to use tables for email based projects, but I notice some people will use multiple tables. for an example:

<!-- outer table -->

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
    <tr>
      <td style="padding: 10px 0px 30px 0px;">


          <!-- inner table -->

          <table style="border: 1px solid #ddd;" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="520px">
            <tr align="center">
              <td>
                <img src="img1.png" style="display: block; width: 500px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; border: none;">
              </td>  
            </tr>

What is the purpose of using several different tables? Any help would be appreciated.

1 Answer

Dallin Rodgers
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Dallin Rodgers
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 13,885 Points
Dallin Rodgers
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Dallin Rodgers
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 13,885 Points

Hello Calvin Castillo,

In your provided example each table has different design settings. This would be very difficult and confusing to accomplish if it was one large table.