Indenting Text
I've just started my new job working on this huge website and I'm wondering what would be the best way to indent text.
On the following pages (as an example), I would like to indent the text under the headers:
http://www.housing.uwaterloo.ca/residence_life/academic.html (the secons with the Tutoring sessions - Math:, Science:, Engineering:)
http://www.housing.uwaterloo.ca/fees/contracts.html (the sections with "Contracts Available" and "Terms and conditions")
There is no real structural reason for doing this, it's mainly to visually segment the content so the user can see what goes were. Obviously, a CSS class is needed. The two issues I am trying to figure out are a) what it should be called and b) what it should be applied to. isn't exactly semantic It should also be applied to the block of content, not the individual items, but I'm not sure that wrapping them in a div is the best solution.
(I know there are a lot of mark-up and consistincy issues to fix on these pages. Lots of work to be done).
Greg K posted this at 21:50 — 28th April 2006.
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My way of doing it would have been
-Greg
Megan posted this at 15:26 — 29th April 2006.
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I think
Megan posted this at 16:07 — 29th April 2006.
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Here we are:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20050630/#blockquote
See s. 5.8 on misuse of blockquote
steve40 posted this at 01:50 — 30th April 2006.
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Who cares what blockquote is for. It keeps text from spreading all over the page, and it validates. I'm like Hunter, "it works for me" as long as this is true; I don't worry about the correct crowd.
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