Tantek Celik talks about the <address> and <br /> tags in his Elements of Meaningful XHTML presentation at WE05 available here: http://www.odeo.com/audio/270419/view
My suggestion would be that <br /> is not necessary when the same visual effect can be achieved with <span> around each address item which is then style span{display:block} with CSS. Each span could have a semantically useful classname or you could look in to the hCard microformat: http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard Jon Tan Grow Collective www.gr0w.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hope Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Web Standards Group" <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 11:47 PM Subject: [WSG] Avoiding the evil <br> I'm getting the hang of this whole Web Standards way of designing a website and for the most part can totally avoid using <br>. But in the example below I'm unsure whether I should in fact avoid using <br>: <p><strong>All correspondence should be addressed to:</strong><br /> The Secretary<br /> Your Club<br /> PO Box 999<br /> Anytown VIC 3000</p> How do others code an address? My feeling is that semantically it should be contained within one paragraph or entity of some sort. But if you were using a screen reader, how would you differentiate one line from the next? If I were to use an ordered list with list-style-type set to none, would this be semantically correct? Is there a better way? Hope Stewart ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.13/126 - Release Date: 09/10/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.13/126 - Release Date: 09/10/2005 ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************