Lea de Groot wrote:
Mordechai (if I can presume to speak for him!) is suggesting that putting an em tag entirely around a block level element (the dd) is not very semantic and a class on the containing dd is more so.
I'm inclined to agree.
While
<div>lorem ipsum dolor <em>sit amet</em> consectetur</div>
would appear to have meaning
<div><em>lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur</em></div>
would appear a little redundant.
<div class="something">lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur</div>
is better.
Another interpretation (that I assumed when I first read M's post) is that it seems contrary to semantics to have date emphasised. If the em is only used for visual styling, it should be replaced by pure styling markup (such as adding a class instead). If something truly is an emphasis, it's not redundant to mark it up as such even if it emcompasses the entirety of the parent element's content.
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