- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:54:57 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>, www-style@w3.org
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> >
> > It is _much_ _much_ more common for people to abuse the "class"
> > attribute than the "id" attribute. In fact abuse of "id" is rare.
>
> Maybe. But it exists [...]
Sure. But I don't see that this misuse deserves to have every UA change to
discourage it. That's a very expensive move for a very minor issue.
> How does one abuse a "class" attribute, btw ?
<div class="body"> ... </div>
<div class="important"> ... </div>
<p class="bullet"> ... </p>
<div class="item"> ... </div>
<span class="green"> ... </p>
<span class="invisible"> ... </span>
<a class="bannerLink" ...> ... </a>
<p class="small"> ... </p>
...etc. Basically, any time someone uses the class attribute for
presentational reasons ("bullet", "green", "invisible", "small"), and any
time someone uses the class attribute when HTML provides means to provide
the actual semantics ("body", "important", "item", "bannerLink").
(Several of the examples above are from the http://www.w3.org/ home page.)
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