Is it possible to convert a CSS div based layout to a table layout programmatically?

Question

We've had a designer come in on a freelance basis to build us an awesome internal web app in HTML and CSS (div based). However, for part of our internal system we have a legacy system which has problems rendering this and it needs a table layout structure with appropriate styling for it to work.

We can't convert things manually because it will take too long as there are lots and lots of pages.

So I am going to attempt to do this programmatically. Before I start, is this possible? Are there any consideration I should think about? Maybe someone has done this already?

I'll be using PHP and its DOM Document class - good idea?

I really need help on this as we might have wasted a lot of money and time on this project.

Answer 1

It might be possible to programatically adapt a specific case, pulling data out of a page and inserting it into a different template, for instance.

You won't be able to write something for the general case though. CSS works in a completely different way to the table layouts of the last millenium.

I'd look at getting the out of date renderer improved instead.