This sounds like it's going to turn into another "let's all figure out how
to use the <address> tag" thing so let me pre-empt that.
I think the bigger question is can someone proivde an example of when best
to use the <br /> tag in general?
What type of content semantically requires a line break.
The one thing that jumps immediately to my mind is poetry where the line
break has serious semantic value.
Another might be for code snippets where the author wants to indicate that
the actaull code continues on one line but is broken up in his example for
deomnstration / readability. This is usually presented by a symbol at the
end of the first line (>> or some such)
Any other examples?
R
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hope Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Web Standards Group" <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 8:47 AM
Subject: [WSG] Avoiding the evil <br>
I'm getting the hang of this whole Web Standards way of designing a
website
and for the most part can totally avoid using <br>. But in the example
below
I'm unsure whether I should in fact avoid using <br>:
<p><strong>All correspondence should be addressed to:</strong><br />
The Secretary<br />
Your Club<br />
PO Box 999<br />
Anytown VIC 3000</p>
How do others code an address? My feeling is that semantically it should
be
contained within one paragraph or entity of some sort. But if you were
using
a screen reader, how would you differentiate one line from the next?
If I were to use an ordered list with list-style-type set to none, would
this be semantically correct? Is there a better way?
Hope Stewart
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