Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
Micky, you seem to misunderstand what I mean. When I say consistency
across the site, I mean that you should be consistent in your approach
on every page. I.e. if you decide to mark up your site title as H1, then
you should also mark it up as H1 on every other page of
Patrick:
From your previous reply, you seemed to think that I was advocating
something like:
h1My site/h1
h4Subsection 1.1/h4
No, that's not what I thought.
No, because that's not valid. H1 can't be inside a P.
Wow! I had missed that, silly me, you are so right...
Anyway, I'd never do
Element to Use for Site Id / Site Title
Jay Gilmore wrote:
Can you give a code example of how it is that you're using your DL?
What's the term, what's the description?
From earlier in this thread:
dl
dtSite Name/dt
dd Site Tagline / Description /dd
/dl
So what would you do
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Sorry for what for some may be a silly question, but may I please ask,
dl, dt and dd and their closing tags, what are they?
They refer to definition lists. The dl is the definition list element,
dt is placed within that and it is the definition term. dd is the
for some may be a silly question, but may I please ask,
dl, dt and dd and their closing tags, what are they?
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Sorry for what for some may be a silly question, but may I please ask,
dl, dt
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I certainly did read the entire thread, thus my question. I was stumped
as to basis of the initial question. The more I read the less I understood.
As for asking silly questions, I would assume that I am not the only
person absolutely in wonder when reading the list
Jay Gilmore wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I certainly did read the entire thread, thus my question. I was
stumped as to basis of the initial question. The more I read the less
I understood.
As for asking silly questions, I would assume that I am not the only
person absolutely in wonder
Herrod, Lisa wrote:
My interpretation of this issue is that we're talking about the consistent
application of hierarchical elements and therefore, their semantic meaning
to a user. Who are the typical users who rely on this type of
element/markup?
Well, absolutely. My main concern is screen
Ian Anderson wrote:
I find a useful rule of thumb is to imagine what the page should look
like in an ideal situation if you were to print it. The site name would
be no more than a footnote repeated on each page.
And that's probably where some other people (notably site owners,
perhaps) may
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
Hmmm...not necessarily. Many of the screen reader users I've observed
and spoken to get up a list of headings, which gives far more
information about the current document than links, which traditionally
point to *other things*. Why would I get up a list of links to
Jay Gilmore wrote:
I got that but what do you then wrap it in so its level of importance is
suggested in the unstyled format if you don't use an hn?
I think the question is, what _is_ its level of importance? I believe
that for accessibility it's important that the site title should _not_
I vary, depending on the site content.
First up, 'article' content (or whatever you want to call to main
content of a page) always gets an h1. But I'll also give h1 to
other top-level parts of the site. In this case, I often find that the
Site Title is an appropriate heading for the main, global
Jay Gilmore wrote:
Can you give a code example of how it is that you're using your DL?
What's the term, what's the description?
From earlier in this thread:
dl
dtSite Name/dt
dd Site Tagline / Description /dd
/dl
So what would you do if there is no tagline/description?
P
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Patrick H.
Jay Gilmore wrote:
I have been cleaning up development templates and I want to know what
people's opinions or views are for element usage for the site title /
company name etc.
Over time, I've found that I've evolved the following pattern as a
'standard' for 'simplest solution' on most
I vary, depending on the site content.
First up, 'article' content (or whatever you want to call to main
content of a page) always gets an h1. But I'll also give h1 to
other top-level parts of the site. In this case, I often find that the
Site Title is an appropriate heading for the main, global
Jay Gilmore wrote:
I got that but what do you then wrap it in so its level of importance is
suggested in the unstyled format if you don't use an hn?
I think the question is, what _is_ its level of importance? I believe
that for accessibility it's important that the site title should _not_
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
Jay Gilmore wrote:
Can you give a code example of how it is that you're using your DL?
What's the term, what's the description?
From earlier in this thread:
dl
dtSite Name/dt
dd Site Tagline / Description /dd
/dl
So what would you do if there is no
Jay Gilmore wrote:
I have been cleaning up development templates and I want to know what
people's opinions or views are for element usage for the site title /
company name etc.
Over time, I've found that I've evolved the following pattern as a
'standard' for 'simplest solution' on most
Ian Anderson wrote:
I believe
that for accessibility it's important that the site title should _not_
be in H1, but rather the main page heading should be, which should be
the same as or similar to the HTML title attribute.
It's worth pointing out, though, that if somebody does have their
I agree with your H1 usage for page titles and would continue what you
have been doing; unless, of course, the page title IS the site title
(ie. homepage of website) then I would use H1 for the company name/site
title. Most people (myself included) use images for the site
title/company name
Micky Mourelo wrote:
...a Wikipedia article should have H1 for the article name, and
WIKIPEDIA wouldn't go on a Hn.
I got that but what do you then wrap it in so its level of importance is
suggested in the unstyled format if you don't use an hn?
How about
dl
dtSite Name/dt
dd Site Tagline
In that case, the wikipedia one, I am suggesting that Wikipedia has
no relevance, provided it is included in TITLE, and you are under that
domain, so to the document in question is of little relevance, IMHO.
I too have dl'itis, it is hard not to see every document as a dl, and
every part of it as
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