Markup nastiness Jan05 '05
One of the web sites I am currently converting to XHTML/CSS has some major markup issues, that are too nasty not to share.
For instance, I don’t know how many times I’ve come across markup such as this:
<font color="#000011"><span class="class"><span class="copyright">
Yuck. That makes my stomach turn. Span class CLASS!? It’s funny, but at the same time NOT funny. It makes me shiver.
Here is some more (I’m warning you not to look!):
<p><span class="bodytextgo"><font color="#000011"><b>Toll Free:</b></font></span><b><span class="bodytextgo"><font color="#000011"> </font></span></b><font color="#000011"><span class="bodytextgo"><span class="class"><span class="bodytextgo"><b>[Phone number here]
Good lord! What were they thinking!?
Here’s another way to say the same thing as above:
<p class="bodytext">Toll Free: [Phone number here]</p>
Was that so hard?
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Chad, I agree. I love using new lines (\n) and tabs (\t), as well. I like viewing the source and seeing nice, clean, structured code. ... Read more.
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