Paula Petrik said: > Using <caption> seems to pose difficulties. What difficulties does the caption pose? This is an interesting point because, in my experience, people have issues with captions *only* becuase they are used to using a heading when preparing documents in Word which doesn't have caption's.
Using CSS you can style the caption to look like a heading if you wish. > Is it necessary? Yes, it improves accessibility, it is more semantically correct, and it has other benefits. Here's an example: you want to generate a list of tables for inclusion in an index. By using the caption element you could generate such a list programmatically without having to fluff around looking for a preceding heading. Easy. And useful. > Should "Readings" and "Internet Visits?" be tagged as <h3> > Why not just leave them with their <p> tags? Yes, they should be marked up differently to regular paragraphs because they indicate a change in context from the surrounding/preceding text. Again, it also makes it easier to find and manipulate programmatically. If you find yourself in a situation where you are using a class to siginificantly alter the appearance of an element, or you have repitious information, then the first question you should ask yourself is "Am I using the right element here, is there some other element that does the job better?". Especially if the element in question is a paragraph. kind regards Terrence Wood. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
