Re: Simple HTML question

Jose wrote:
So you never use a table, right? First IE didn't support them....be real now!

It's not a question of whether I use a whatever as a WEB designer, it's a question of =how= to design the =standards= for a whatever, as a STANDARDS designer.

And yes, in the earlier years (not too long ago actually) I had avoided tables when possible so as to be useful in more browsers. I now use tables (but don't like them much as a user because cut and paste don't work well).

Not use what you mean CODE element has be part of the markup repertoire since 2.0 back in 94 so basically every graphical browser supports it. 12 years ago, thats eons in computer years!


Were I to DESIGN the code tag, I would design it such that whatever was inside the code tag would still be able to be marked up, because browsers that do not support the code tag would present the content as is, and I would expect the web designer to have the option of marking it up appropriately for such a case.

If the content is computer code then semantically it is proper to use the CODE element. If it is a paragraph, use P. If is it a list, use UL or OL. If the data is tabular then use a TABLE by all means. It would be wrong really to put tabular data in a series of positioned DIVs


Were I to USE the code tag, I would expect what's inside to be interpreted as HTML and require escape codes to display characters that would otherwise be "live".

CODE element just denotes that the contained text is source code of some sort and is usually displayed in a monospaced font. Nothing is escaped, you still need html entities like > and <

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