Can you do this HTML layout without using tables?

Question

Ok, I had a simple layout problem a week or two ago. Namely sections of a page needed a header:

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Answer 1

I agree that one should really only use tables for tabular data, for the simple reason that tables don't show until they're finished loading (no matter how fast that is; it's slower that the CSS method). I do, however, feel that this is the simplest and most elegant solution:

    
        
        
    

    
        

        
Title
        
Button
        
    

The button function and any extra detail can be styled from this basic form. Apologies for the bad tags.