There are ways to make the icon clickable as part of the link when
it's a background.
Are you asking what is semantic or how to do things in css? It seems
the latter to me. The how you do it is secondary to the semantics.
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On 11 May 2010, at 11:22, Shrikant Sharat <shrikantshara...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I think some people (like me) might click on the icon as opposed to
the link text itself. This might not work if the background image
technique is used, but I am not sure about this.
This point too, boils down to what your icon signifies in the link's
context.
2010/5/11 st...@stevegibbings.co.uk <st...@stevegibbings.co.uk>
Easy answer- use a background image.
Less easy answer - is the image content or just a visual
representation of existing content?
I would say the link is the real content and you are adding to that
visually with an icon image.
Steve
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On 11 May 2010, at 10:48, "Naveen Bhaskar - live" <naveenbhas...@live.in
> wrote:
Hi,
what is the correct semantic structure for putting an icon in the
website. when I checked youtube , I see the icons loaded with css
to a spacer which is 1x1 size. Is that a good approach?
I want to show an email id with an email icon with that. can
anyone suggest me the right semantic structure .
<span class="email">
<img src="spacer.gif" alt="'>
<a href=mailto:a...@gmail.com>some_email_id</a>
</span>
or
just <a href=mailto:a...@gmail.com>some_email_id</a> and attach
the icon with css background property for the anchor tag?
thanks a lot in advance.
.naveen_bhaskar
{
email : naveenbhaskar...@gmail.com;
yahoo : naveenbhas...@ymail.com;
}
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