How to get tabular layout in Handouts from the API (without using tables)?

I'm working on a script to display character stats in a handout, and i;m discovering most of the CSS techniques I'm familiar with (like grid) aren't working.

I see a bunch of old posts (predating the chat format update) talking about a lot of css and styling being stripped from output generated from the API, as well as a lot of !important being added which interferes with attempts to add your own styling.

So how do you generate, say, a tabular layout in a handout that doesn't use html tables?

What other styling gotchas are there, and workarounds for them?

Tables are ideally suited for tabular data, why wouldn't you want to use them?

Because they look awful in handouts. Aren't they fairly resistant to styling too?

I might be showing some bias - i have always disliked roll20's implementation of tables. 

Also to clarify, I'm not just talking about tabular data - but table-like layouts, like you see in character sheets.

I've had a lot of luck with spans set to display:block.

Take a look at how Stephen handled them in his Markdown script. They look pretty nice there.

Do you have a link for that script? I'm not seeing it on the github.

It may not be there.  Sort of like someone's Chat Menu script...  :P

The thread with links in the first post is here:  https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/8028597/script-markdown-handouts-and-bios/?pagenum=1

hehe, thanks.