Michael Vogt wrote:

Hello all.

I follow the discussions here for quite a while already, and have a
lot of respect for the knowledge that is on this list. A great place
to learn. Hope you can help me here (and I'm on topic for the list).

Some days ago I had a short discussion with a colleague about a
display bug in (surprise) IE. The solution he found was to replace all
tags (except html, head, body I guess) with <span> and style the
layout with CSS. He really means it, and he was proud that he has
found a solution to all(!) display problems in IE.

Unfortunately I had not the correct arguments why this is not the
right way to do it. On this list, there are many discussions about how
to build the page semantically correct. Is there any info useful
information for starters about this subject available?

Any help is welcome.


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It sounds like he has done this to overcome default styling, in such a case couldn't you just make sure to specify all style rules not assuming any browser defaults? Otherwise it sounds like a horrible mess, even if that did fix a bug would you really want to. It is of course in no way semantically correct.
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