Cole Kuryakin wrote:

[...]

One MAJOR problem with using background images for the flag buttons
is the fact that each entry could carry any one of 200+ flags. That's
a WHOLE LOT of background declarations! No matter what type of more
semantic structure I end up using for this I'm afraid I'll have to
use image tags for the flag.

Anyone else have any suggestion of what a "preferred" semantical
structure "should be" for a guestbook?


Nope. A table doesn't seem far-fetched - it looks like tabular data to me...

On the subject of the flags, you could make one tall (or wide) image
containing all the flags, and simply change the background-position
property for each entry's CSS selector. This would likely save you
coding a whole bunch of IMG tags - and images...

Search for "css background image sprites" for more about this technique.

Cordially,
David
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