semantic-html
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Semantic (X)HTML
Semantic (X)HTML refers to:
- The semantic elements and attributes of (X)HTML (as opposed to the presentational HTML elements and attributes)
- (X)HTML documents that are written using semantic (X)HTML.
- The practice of writing semantic (X)HTML
- plain old semantic HTML
Contributors
Semantic Elements
(This list is incomplete, please add!)
- a
- abbr
- acronym
- address
- blockquote
- cite
- dt, dd
- dfn
- em
- ...
- h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6
- li
- ...
- label
- legend
- ...
- ol
- p
- q
- ...
- samp
- strong
- sub
- sup
- table (when used for tabular data, not layout)
- caption
- scope
- summary
- tbody
- td
- tfoot
- th
- thead
- tr
- ul
- var
Semantic Attributes
(This list is incomplete, please add!)
- class
- data
- href
- hreflang
- id
- lang
- rel
- rev
- type
Presentations
The following presentations provide additional background, explanations, and techniques for authoring semantic (X)HTML.
- 2005-09-29 The Elements of Meaningful XHTML (first version: 2005-03-13 at SXSW Interactive).
- 2004-09-28 Semantic XHTML: Can your website be your API? - Using semantic XHTML to show what you mean
- 2004-02-11 real world semantics
- 2003-03-?? CSS: Between the Style Sheets in particular slide 9, titled CSS & the Semantic Spectrum, provides an overview of the semantic spectrum of (X)HTML tags.
- More microformats presentations in general