Hi Patrick (and all), I understand what you are saying about presentational names, but where does one draw the line? I must say that I sometimes find it hard to 'read' someone's markup because the div names are chosen badly. Certainly in this particular case, my structure of:
container menu banner heading leftcol rightcol subhead leftcol rightcol subhead leftcol rightcol fullwidth subhead leftcol rightcol subhead fullwidth footnote would confuse me terribly if I couldn't instantly see which stuff was on the left etc. Also, if you take this argument to it's extreme, you wouldn't use names such as 'header' or 'footer', because you might want to change them around later! The worry is that declarations may end up being of the type: container menu bar (instead of header) emc2 c2em etc! Of course, it is really hard to think of descriptive names which avoid presentational character, but surely we all agree that names should help readability of markup (in most cases anyway :-) ? Anyone have thoughts/suggestions ? Bob McClelland, Cornwall (U.K.) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
