Is it bad design to use table tags when displaying forms in html?

Question

I keep hearing that div tags should be used for layout purposes and not table tags. So does that also apply to form layout? I know a form layout is

Answer 1

Most of the answers I've seen here seem appropriate. The only thing I'd add, specifically to apathetic's or Mr. Matt's is to use

/

/

. I believe these represent the list semantically.

  
Name:
  

You might want to restyle these, but this says semantically what's going on, that is you've got a list of "terms" (

) and "definitions" (

), with the term being the label and the definition being the user entered values.