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Presentational (X)HTML
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Presentational (X)HTML refers to:
The presentational elements and attributes of (X)HTML (as opposed to the semantic HTML elements and attributes) (X)HTML documents that are written using presentational (X)HTML. The practice of writing presentational (X)HTML
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Contributors
Tantek (http://tantek.com/)
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Presentational Elements
Presentational elements sensu lato can be divided into two groups. "Deliberate" presentational elements (b, i, small, …) have no semantic meaning and were deliberately designed/created for presentational purposes. "Abused" presentational elements (table, blockquote, …) have a semantic meaning, but are abused because of their default appearance in browsers (the blockquote element could be used for indenting text, for example).
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Deliberate
Deprecated:
basefont center font hr s strike tt u
Frames:
frame frameset iframe
Strict but mostly presentational:
b br (when used for spacing, or when used inappropriately where a div or p would have been semantically correct) big i small sub sup
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Abused
blockquote (when used for indenting text) table (when used for layout)
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Presentational Attributes
(This list is incomplete, please add!)
align alink bgcolor color face height link (on body) size (on font element) valign vlink width
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See also
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