Even now you already have a tableless Joomla 1.5 template on your sites, as we may or should know that by default Joomla core content component still outputting a table layout. So, we will have a mix between tableless template and a table content layout. Thanks to Joomla Developer that still provide us with the alternate way to overrides this table layout. So, why are these tableless things is so important? Some said that tables are slow, tables can be inflexible, accesibility issues are easier with css. Read this Why avoiding tables (for layout) is important article.

For further details on how the overriden work please read on this how to override the output from the Joomla! core documentation.

YooTheme provide us with all necessary files for this overriden things on most Joomla core components - thanks to them to make our life easier. You can download the files and read the guide article in here.

Read more on how is the different when browser views the html source of standart joomla table content layout and the overriden tableless layout on the next page.

Below is how this Lab source viewed using Firebug (a Firefox browser addons) before and after implementing these overriden stuffs.