Thanks all for their input. Some of the learnings from the thread : 1. <i> tag is getting deprecated. 2. Use <em> and <strong> 3. Have CSS used to do the kind of stuff I was trying. I must inform, this was already in place. 4. Keep an eye on the SE monster. Regards, Shreyas On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Andrew Ballard <aballard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:28 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > At 6:03 PM +0100 10/18/10, ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> > >> There's nothing wrong with using <em> as it indicates emphasised text, > >> which is semantic. Use span tags with classes only when the content > you're > >> styling has no semantic alternative. > >> > >> <strong>important message</strong> is much better for machines > (including > >> search engines, screen readers, etc) to infer a meaning for than > >> <span class="bold_text">important message</span> > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Ash > >> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > While using the em tag as you describe will certainly work, but what > happens > > when the designer wants to change the style of an em tag to something > else > > and doesn't want the output from your code to change? > > > > I have found it better to leave styling to the designer. > > > > That is the exactly the intended purpose of the <em></em> and > <strong></strong> tags: they simply indicate semantically that the > enclosed text is either emphasized or strong (or, if nested, the text > would be strongly emphasized? ;-) ), and it is up to CSS to define > what that should look like. The appearance can easily change at any > time without changing the HTML itself, just as you suggest. > > While the same is technically true of <i>italic</i> and <b>bold</b>, > those tags by definition imply a specific way to render the content > that they contain, which makes a real confusion in cases such as <i > style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">text</i>. > > Andrew > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Regards, Shreyas Agasthya
