>>I was asking for a "No, because..." or "Yes, because..." response.

>Fair enough.

>No, because it's not a paragraph, it's an image. A reader (forget humans, just 
>think reading mechanisms, which can include humans) when it sees a <p> expects 
>to >see a paragraph of content. Instead it sees an image. The proper markup 
>for that is the <img> tag. If that needs a wrapper, that's what <div> is for 
>(it's for any >arbitrary block, as <span> is for any arbitrary string).

>So, wrenching this over in the direction of CSS, when you want to style an 
>image and perhaps some associated text, the proper thing to style would be a 
><div> >rather than a <p>.  It'd be really sweet if HTML had a tag that would 
>encompass not only the graphic itself but also associated content, but I've 
>not seen any >stirrings in that direction.


>Skip Knox
>Boise State University





Thank you! :-) ...And of course thanks to David too. :-)

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