For instance, they'll put a <ul> inside a <div id="menu">, just so that they can style the <ul>, instead of just giving the <ul> itself an id.
I never really noticed this, but I tend to code this way too. Here's a
small sample i've been playing with:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">
<h1 class="hide">Image replaced title here</h1>
</div>
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Products</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Services</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
By what you're saying, I could simply have my outer wrapper for the
margins/bg stuff, and then the <h1> id'ed to replicate the whole header,
and the ul id'ed to the nav list.
This makes sense.
<div id="wrapper">
<h1 id="header">Image replaced title here</h1>
<ul id="nav">
<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Products</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Services</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
is much less cluttered, and can still perform the same structure for
display.
Good topic. I'm going to re-think the whole approach on this project.
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