my website layout uses a table like this.
<table>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="2" style="padding-right:41px;">
</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="440px">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="440px">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
a nav bar on the left which takes up two rows and two columns.
How can I translate this to CSS? how do i handle rowspan?
I've read that using a table will slow down rendering the page, because the browser has to render all columns first before it can render the table. so if one column contains 1000 nested divs the other columns have to wait to render. Is this true?