C H A P T E R 8
Marking Up Text
We are going to switch track from the big structural document elements to something much finer grained: the text-level elements (text elements, for brevity). When you add these elements to your text, you add structure and meaning. This will become evident as you work through the examples in this chapter.
The HTML5 specification makes it clear that you should only use elements for their semantic value. However, to make life easier, the specification also makes it clear that the traditional styling associated with these elements is part of the semantic meaning for some elements. This is a bit of a fudge, but a helpful one that maintains compatibility with older HTML versions.
Some of these elements have very specific ...
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