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

[Andrew Sione Taumoefolau]

> 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?

I say yes! I do the same thing to prevent older browsers from showing
images that are purely presentational. I think it's better to have a
little meaningless semantic noise in your code than to expose useless
visual noise to browsers that support images but don't support CSS.

Cheers,

Andrew Taumoefolau

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