GWT: FlexTable vs Table

Question

Under what circumstance I should use FlexTable instead of HTMLTable?

Answer 1

You can not compare like that.

As per Docs

HTMLTable contains the common table algorithms for Grid and FlexTable.

So Grid or Flextable extends HTMLTable.

And

A Flexible table that creates cells on demand. It can be jagged (that is, each row can contain a different number of cells) and individual cells can be set to span multiple rows or columns.

Now we can have a question Grid or Flextable ???

Here is the Performance difference between grid and Flextable.