- From: Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:22:47 +0000
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 19:47 +0100, Jacob Kristensen wrote: > Why would anyone want to include lists inside paragraphs? > Aside from those very old, ancient documents/sites that are left out there, > who left out the closing tags for paragraphs? > > Where you would typically see one large paragraph of text in books (to save > space), you would see the same paragraph breaken up into multiple paragraphs > on a web page, for readability purposes.. > I would generally recommend to break it up, and create a new paragraph after > the table, list, or whatever you included. > > Even though that browsers may not have an outline, and might not need one? > some can still find proper use of sectioning elements useful. I.e. Search > engines, and assistive devices. > > Jacob Kristensen > http://blueboden.com/ > I can think of a couple of reasons, namely that a) a paragraph shouldn't break mid-sentence and a sentence may surround a list, and b) people might want to use inline lists like this -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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