David Sharp wrote:
> Shiloh Madsen wrote:
>> I know that we should no longer be using the bold and underline html
>> tags and the like, however I am not entirely certain how to handle
>> performing this function on a page in the most elegant way.
>
> As I understand it...
>
> Tags like <b>bold</b> and <i>italic</i> have been deprecated I think
> because they imply how the text should *look* which is no longer
> considered the province of HTML.
[snips]
> <span class="underline">Underlined text</span> with... span.underline
> { text-decoration : underline } ...may be more useful, especially if you
> want to combine selectors, but I don't think this is such an elegant
> solution as the judicious use of <bold> and <em>
And the big benefit to using <strong> and <em> - if CSS is off, the
visitor at least gets some indication that those particular
words/phrases have a bit more importance than their surrounding text.
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David
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