- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:09:09 +0100
- To: "Ivan Enderlin" <w3c@hoa-project.net>, public-html@w3.org
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:39:21 +0100, Ivan Enderlin <w3c@hoa-project.net> wrote: > I was reading the HTML 5 draft and something is strange about <u> tag. > In HTML 4, <u> tag is depreciated [1], and <u> tag doesn't exist in HTML > 5 [2]. I don't find anymore informations about it in XHTML 1.0 or 1.1. > So I deduce that we can't underlined an element in HTML right now ? This is still possible using CSS: text-decoration:underline. I believe the main reason <u> is not in HTML5 is that usability studies have shown that users very strongly connotate underlined text with a link. Using <u> obviously has adverse affects on this expectation. > Notes : > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#edef-U ; > [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#phrase. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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