I did, of course, mean TJK!!! Sorry Thierry!
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From: "designer" <desig...@gwelanmor-internet.co.uk>
To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org>
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [WSG] [Spam] :The wisdom? of using q to clear
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From: Ben Buchanan
2009/9/27 designer <desig...@gwelanmor-internet.co.uk>
Thanks to all who replied. However, no-one said "don't do this because .
. ."
??
OK, well, since you're kind of asking... ;) Don't do that because it's
horrendously non-semantic and you should be making your pages semantically
correct. You are basically adding fake content to your page just to
support a specific design requirement at a specific point in time, etc...
Since you're actually adding content, you could potentially end up with
some users seeing "for clearing" when they view your page. For example
some mobile phones I've used revealed content that was hidden by CSS. Also
Google will pick up all the extraneous "for clearing" text and read it
along with your real content.
If you want to put something into your markup just for clearing purposes I
can't really see the point in using <q> - it's not a quote by any stretch
of the imagination. If you can make it work with a <br /> tag stick to
that, I think. If you need "text" just use a neutral tag and a space, eg.
<div class="brute-force-clear"> </div> which is at least better than
actual text.
Better to avoid it entirely though, using one of the alternative fixes
mentioned earlier.
cheers,
Ben
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Fair enough Ben, I'm convinced! I've adopted the 'corrected' overflow
approach, as suggested by TDK, for the particular job in hand.
Thanks all,
Bob
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