Curing my Divitis

Tuesday 25th November 2008, 08:25 PM
When widespread support finally came for CSS, we moved on to more semantic markup, with use of holding div tags floated and positioned to generate the desired effect. Sure, this came along with the need for hacks to cover up inconsistencies between different browsers, but we looked down our noses at those still using HTML tables and cited web standards. But as it turns out, over use on non-semantic "presentation" tags (span and div, both have no actual implied meaning) can be almost as much of a sin as the one we left behind.
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