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« on: July 24, 2003, 02:37:01 AM »
Two questions:
What's the easiest way for format the line spacing in an unorderd list?
example:
<ul>
  <li>hello</li>
  <li>line 2</li>
</ul>

and let's say I want a line spacing of 1 and 1/2 or even 2

Second:
What's everyones opinion on the <strong> vs. <b> method of making text bold.  Is one better than the other?  why?
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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2003, 06:10:02 AM »
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What's everyones opinion on the <strong> vs. <b> method of making text bold.  Is one better than the other?  why?
Besides the fact that one of them is easier to type than the other?
While bold is just for appearance, strong takes on something that needs strong emphasis. For people using nonvisual browsers, using strong will help them understand what sort of emphasis was meant to be put on the text.
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« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2003, 07:34:30 PM »
Hi,

When the left justification is applied the programming changes:
Code:
   <ul>
       <li><p align="left">This is the first item.</p></li>
       <li><p align="left">This is the second item.</p></li>
       <li><p align="left">This is the third item.</p></li>
    </ul>
Notice the difference. A new set of HTML markup tags has been introduced: <p align="left"> and </p>. The <p> and </p> are paragraph tags and indicate the beginning and end of a paragraph. In HTML paragraphs are double-spaced when displayed in the browser. When introduced in a list the paragraph tags provide the double-spacing. The align="left" is the left-justification.
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« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2003, 09:13:19 PM »
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What's everyones opinion on the <strong> vs. <b> method of making text bold.  Is one better than the other?  why?

I just read an article recently (sorry, I can't remember where  Sad ) that said it's better for the SE's to use the <strong> tags as opposed to the <b> tags.  (Naturally I read this after building thousands of pages...sigh).

If I see this again I'll post it, but I'm all over the place so if anyone else finds it or something similar, please do let us know!
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« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2003, 10:53:02 PM »
Ched,

rather than battling with specialist HTML tag attributes I'd learn more about css style sheets then you can define your site style from one file and change the whole site appearance more easily. It saves having to contaminate your html with style definitions as per an MS Word. I guess it is also appreciated with the search engines since they have less code to crawl through and much less stuff to cache. Also accessibility-orientated search engines should appreciate this approach so they can easily ignore the style sheet.
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« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2004, 12:15:17 PM »
with an increasing number of application becoming web enabled - eg. phones, fridges (for recipes), screen readers - there is an increasing need to seperate form from content.

EMPHASIS and STRONG are the original HTML tags for emphasizing and emphasizing strongly. BOLD and ITALIC were added later for formatting, i.e. form rather than content. Try speaking your web page allowed - try saying something ITALICALLY!

XHTML with CSS is the W3C recommended way and that will move on to XHTML with XSL soon.

HTML 4: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/struct/text.html#edef-STRONG

http://www.w3.org/2000/10/DIAWorkshop/accesssep.html

http://www.webaim.org/discussion/mail_message.php?id=1204

http://www.w3schools.com/
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« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2004, 07:31:04 PM »
The proper way to increase line-spacing is throught css:

<head>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
li {
   line-height: 150%;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<ul>
 <li>hello</li>
 <li>line 2</li>
</ul>
</body>

For better compliance, use strong.
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