> okay, hi everyone: a short question, i intend it to be, at least. > is "i" (italic) deprecated in xhtml? and even better, could someone > point me to a w3c page that talks about what is deprecated in xhtml? > and, second part of that, why does the validator validate it if it is > deprecated.
A good quote by Ian Hickson: "<b> and <i> are technically not deprecated, but the style of markup that would use them, namely presentation-orientated markup, is discouraged in favour of more semantic markup, e.g. using <strong>, <cite>, <dfn>, or <em> as appropriate. Some would argue that there are times when <b> and <i> are appropriate elements. This is a matter for debate on another list." http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/27958 Within font style elements (TT, I, B, BIG, SMALL, STRIKE, S, and U), the following are deprecated: STRIKE and S: Deprecated. Render strike-through style text. U: Deprecated. Renders underlined text. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/graphics.html A chart showing all deprecated elements (see column with "D"): http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html The <i> element is still available in the XHTML 1.1 presentation module: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstract_modules.html#s_presentati onmodule Definition of deprecated (for those who haven't come across it before): http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/conform.html#deprecated HTH Russ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
