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Re: [WSG] when to place as a background in CSS

Russ Weakley - Maxdesign
Fri, 28 May 2004 16:10:55 -0700

Agree. A good guide is to look at the page with CSS switched off. Does it
still have meaning with some images missing? If images are decorative and in
the CSS, no meaning should be lost. The reverse is also true. Is the page
littered with unnecessary images that add no meaning?

A page with CSS switched off should look clean, well marked up with the
correct html elements and only critical images such as logos or content
based images on the page.

Russ


> Bruce, that's perfectly acceptable, provided the image adds nothing but
> aesthetic content to the site.
> 
> Mike Pepper
> 
> I am creating a web site, that I want to make as accessible as possible.
> Some important images such as logos and the mast header I have placed in
> <img> tags within the (x) html so I can give them alt tags, but other
> images which are basically decoration, I have placed within the CSS <div>
> tags as background images. Is this o.k to do as long as the images don't
> have any specific meaning to the content?
> 
> Bruce Gilbert

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