Archive for the ‘Semantic’ Category

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Block elements, inline elements

Most of elements in html can be divided in to categories: inline and block. For exemple a <div> tag is a block element and a <a> tag is an inline element.

If you don’t see the difference between the <a> and <div> tags in terms of nature you need to read the follow. Understanding the differences and write your code properly with those difference will spare you time during the validation but also during the designing.

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Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Lets talk about semantic markup

If you are a Web Designer or Developer you must have once heard about semantic. Even if you haven’t done it on purpose you might have also followed some semantic rules during your work without knowing it.

To be honest semantic is an other buzzword we use today to sale something as old as html.

The shorter definition I can come up with is “Use the right markup for the right purpose”. I will talk about semantic more deeply later but for know just try to grasp the concept.

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