>From the "CSS Mastery Advanced Web Standards Solutions" book by Andy Budd, and I quote: "Many people mistakenly believe that a div element has no semantic meaning. However div actually stands for *division *and provides a way of dividing a document into meaningful areas. So by wrapping your main content area in a div and giving it an ID of mainContent, you are adding structure and meaning to your document."
But as far as i know, screen readers do not pick up IDs or classes? So even by declaring a div ID="mainNav", it's still not enough to describe what's inside the div? I'm starting to get awfully confused... On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson <c...@freeshell.org>wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Joseph Taylor wrote: > > That's a great link. It also shows that an extra empty element, while it >> may be "the easy way out" works across the board without side effects of any >> kind. >> >> Yes it is mixing content and presentation. >> > > Many DIVs (and SPANs) are, in fact, used for presentation rather > than semantic reasons. They exist only so that they can have > styling applied to them. They don't provide any information about > WHAT they contain. > > On Feb 9, 2009, at 3:23 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis < >> bhawkesle...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> On 9/2/09 07:45, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: >>> >>>> How can CSS overflow replace <div style="clear:both;"></div>? >>>> >>> >>> See http://www.ejeliot.com/blog/59 >>> >> > -- > Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://woodbine-gerrard.com> > =================================================================== > Author: > Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
