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Re: html style

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On 3/15/2023 2:29 PM, e.d.pro...@gmail.com wrote:
> Granted this has nothing to do with Java, other than the warning in
> eclipse on my jsp, but I wanted to get some opinions. What is best
> for writing html styling these days? I got a warning on a <u> tag
> stating it's deprecated. The browser converts this to
> style="text-decoration: underline;". There is no replacement tag to
> do the same thing. The old <i> tag converts to style="font-style:
> italic;". The <em> tag does the exact same thing. The old <b> tag
> converts to style="font-weight: bold;". The <strong> tag does the
> exact same thing. The <i> and <b> tags aren't giving warnings, just
> code smells. Apparently the team responsible for maintaining html
> definitions decided emphasis was clearer than italic and strong was
> clearer than bold, though they serve the same function, and literally
> nothing on the web needs to be underlined anymore aside from <a>
> tag. They still use the <u> tag on this doc page:
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/accesskey
>
>  Whether you agree with the html team or not, replacing all <i> and
> <b> references with <em> and <strong> seems trivial, but with the
> only drop in replacement for <u> being a style property, do we even
> bother writing <em> and <strong> or literally put everything in
> another tag such as <div> or <span> and do all of these with css
> classes?
> 
> One use case I found in <u> for an application I'm maintaining was
> documentation, for emphasis, such as "... <u>new</u> records...".
> While it does make sense to me to change that to <em> (or is that a
> strong?), we can't change it if the customer prefers underlining.

My opinion:
- stay away from all of these old tags
- use div, p and span with class
- let the visual designers do the CSS that define what those classes do

Arne

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