- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:42:06 -0800
- To: public-html@w3.org
Ivan Enderlin wrote: > Hi all :) > > 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 ? > > Best regards, > -Ivan > > Notes : > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#edef-U ; > [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#phrase. > There is one case that we use in UI for <u> - to mark shortcut combinations: <button><u>O</u>pen</button> We do have special behavior defined for the <u> element that synthesizes button click event when user presses Ctrl-O (for the button above). So this brings some semantic meaning to the element but this is not what it was intended for of course. -- Andrew Fedoniouk. http://terrainformatica.com
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