I have seen several sites that have done this, presumably for the visual effect of having a border around each subsection of content; some browsers will give that border round corners. Of course the same effect can be achieved with the correct use of CSS but maybe they just thought this way is easier.
Steve -----Original Message----- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barney Carroll Sent: 12 January 2007 14:59 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Re: usage of fieldset Mihael Zadravec wrote: > Hi! > > What would be your reaction, if you'd see someone using <fieldset> for > something else than containing forms? > > eg. something like... > > <fieldset> > <legend>Some tite here</legend> > <div class="notification"> > <p>This is some content.</p> > </div> > </fieldset> > > cya! > Mihael It's incorrect and pointless. Why would anyone want to do such a thing? Regards, Barney ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************