"What is" better? I read an interesting article about the benifits of talbes & divs..
http://www.decloak.com/Dev/CSSTables/CSS_Tables_01.aspx
Most prefer tables b/c they're familiar,
but it seems most people are turning their attention to div-style formats..

hm, actually, the trend is more towards tables i think.
divs are good to really position one element, or make it appear over other stuff. but i'd use tables to layout en entire page. it's easy.

about the full css div layout it's so challenging and flexible

Yup, from the initial days only, I've been using tables and div tags for better layout of my pages. They really give u some controll.

With the right amount of cellspacing, cellpadding, border colour, background colour, table tags and div tags have become indespensible !!

Bye

at first use the div (full css layout) is tough. even impossible to adapt mostly to table users like me. but when you learn it, it just like a piece of cake
div layout gave you much power and lighter code in designing html template, and you can create layout with ease that is unyielding to table

The diffrence is easy.
Tables- They are old, they are limited, they are easier, they're for amateurs.
CSS Positioning (ea. Divs)- They're new, they're flexible, they're tough, they're for professionals.

Tables don't allow you to put alot of dynamicness in your webpage. If you have a layout and you want to change it a little, you have to rebuild it from start, because the cells of a table just don't allow for easy manipulation. They're a pain in the backside for any webdesigner that wants to go beyond the limitations of normal ancient design. CSS Positioning provides an amasing solution to all the problems. But it's a bit harder to manage, and the biggest issue of all. IE supports them, but they screwed up with the Box Model. So things look diffrent in IE... Sigh, shoot the bastards. Thus you sometimes need special CSS Hacks to give a diffrent kind of Positioning to IE in order to make it show the same as good browsers.

Most javascript functions are written with DIV to create effects.
Most commons use of DIV in javascript is hidding and showing content on click, mouse over or conditions met. This type of javascript effects are generally know as "Dynamic Content".

i'd like to contradict that:
a good site is one that doesn't have too much movement & animation. it has to be fast, clear, handy and have a good placement of information.
most companies use tables. div's are as old as tables and are cool to position one element. i wouldn't call them more difficult.
TABLES!

I like makeing Div Layers better then I like Makeing Table.

uh huh.. DHTML.. and I personally hate it kind of. CSS is far more professional. Personal taste I guess, but JavaScript is just generally evil.