David Majda writes: <<I don't want to do hackery with <div>'s. What I need is to write hr sometimes, and style it in my CSS so that it looks how I want. I don't care if it is structural or presentational, it simply serves it's purpose. You have a great opportunity to stop the progress of the web, because if XHTML 2.0 goes out without <hr>, I simply won't use it. And if there will be more useful features "forgotten" in the spec, nobody will use it.>> To me, the <hr /> element is purely presentational. Applying a CSS border rule to almost any block will mimic the behavior of the horizontal rule so I don't believe it to be necessary. The only example I can think of where it might be necessary is if the author is attempting to present a document to a user agent that is not CSS-aware and such an element is required, but the same could be said for a great many other pseudo-presentational elements. Who would have thought that such a little (largely decorative) tag could generate so much heated discussion? Simon Jessey e: <A HREF="mailto:scjessey@aol.com">scjessey@aol.com</A> w: <A HREF="http://jessey.net/">http://jessey.net</A>Received on Monday, 26 August 2002 19:23:22 GMT
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