title: Tableless html alternative
body: <p>Can someone show me some html to layout the following not using tables?</p>
  
  <pre><code>______________________________________
  |_______|_____________|               |
  |_______|_____________|_______________|
  |_______|_____________|               |
  |_______|_____________|               |
  |_______|_____________|_______________|
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The third column needs to span the first two "rows" and then span the next three "rows"
  The first "column" needs to have the same width</p>
  
  <p>I ask this because of the whole "Tables are dead for layout" argument</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE:
  the content of the markup has checkboxes, textboxes, and textareas</p>
  
  <p><strong>CONCLUSION:</strong> </p>
  
  <p>This has been very enlightening. I believe I have been cleared up with this philosophical question. </p>
  
  <p>It seems to me that the general rule should be: Don't use tables for your entire website, if there are sections that look like a table, then use a table. Extremes of "NEVER USE A TABLE" seems impractical and theoretical. Likewise, excessive use of tables makes maintenance difficult, and dealing with 4-deep nested tables can be a real pain.</p>
  
  <p>So because the layout above "looks like a table" I'm going to use a table. :)</p>