Chapter 3
New Structural Elements
As we saw in the exercises at the end of Chapter 1, it’s all about the semantics. The mistaken idea of choosing our markup solely for its presentation, as epitomized by <table>-based layouts and spacer.gifs, has been thoroughly shown the door by the “standardista” movement. Instead, our rallying cry is
“Use the most semantically appropriate element.”
Happily, most of the time the default browser presentation of each element closely maps to its semantic meaning. This gives us accessibility benefits, as semantic markup provides a foundation of meaning regardless of presentation. It also has the benefit of future-proofing ...
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