>On 2/11/07 (12:36) Tom said: > >>Another question though... do you have an example of proper, semantic >>use of <strong> vs <b>? Is it just just a tag to allow you to style >>your own visual emphasis? How about <strong> vs. <em> - what's the >>semantic difference?
Rick actually provides a great example in his response. I've marked up his sentence below: <q> The word (probably) does not require any semantic emphasis per se -- ie. you are not giving it any enhanced meaning -- and so you would not use the <em> tag but you <strong>DO</strong> want to give it a visual-only enhancement to make it render in italics. </q> I've added <strong> </strong> around DO. You can see that he is emphasizing a point there, so the markup <em>should</em> reflect that. [Even more emphasis for you.] In other words, listen to the way you speak. You can hear when you add emphasis, or really strong emphasis, to what you are saying. In HTML, those word(s) would get wrapped in <em> or <strong> As for <b> and <i>, well, I don't use them. They have no semantics per se, just visual effect. If I need something bolded or italicized I 1) see what element it is already in 2) look to see if there is an appropriate HTML element I could add 3) If 1 and 2 fail, I'll use a <span class=""> with a semantically rich class name. (Or at least I try to make it semantically meaningful : ) Hope that helps. ~ Tim tjameswhite.com'>http://www.tjameswhite.com";>tjameswhite.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
