Should you have defaults styles for `table`?

Luke Underwood wrote in with an interesting question:

What are the best practices for default <table> styling?

I guess there are three possibilities:

• Have default styles
• Don't
• Somewhere in between

Luke elaborates:

Our office is split on the idea. In our base templates we currently have no styles being applied to tables by default. You need a class to get it looking pretty (with borders, background colors etc). We use this class primarily on tables used in main content areas.…

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