tables in asp.net

I am using Visual Microsoft Web developer express. I am using tables to control layouts, and I have hard time controlling tables. In the design view, the layout looks perfect, but actual display of the layout on a browser is horrendous. Design view and actual view are different.

Yup. You'll also find that different browsers will display differently as well. You can live with it, control the layout precisely with specific width and height attributes as well as font sizing and hope it works in most browser, or work with CSS instead of tables. But it's the nature of the environment, you don't control what the user sees, the user and the user's browser does.

Jeff

i would have loved the older way. ie coding it and not using the design way. so that u get a better control of where you want to put the control