Comments on: The 5 Most Under-Used HTML Tags

By: memco

memco — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:01:13 +0000

To those recommending the microformat for addresses: do you do this under the auspice that people can actually use that data in other programs or just that it’s a handy feature to have on top your code? I’m not too hip on having a div or span for every single element. However, I’m also conflicted by having to use br tags after every piece of information. All in all, I just feel like it’s hopeless no matter which way I go.

By: madr

madr — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:38:24 +0000

Great article! I believe it would have a bigger effect in another forum than sitepoint, though; people here tend to write semantic markup.

By: uxgeoff

uxgeoff — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:28:12 +0000

Great article. If you're wanting to just see what every current HTML tag looks like on one page, check out Show Me HTML. Hope you find it useful (I do).

By: Craig Buckler

Craig Buckler — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:03:55 +0000

Are these original tags? Or Tags that have been implemented in later HTML standards?

Most were introduced in HTML 4.0, so they’ve been around over 10 years!

By: jerry jiang

jerry jiang — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:16:04 +0000

ALL of them are very usefull when i build my website~~

By: PetFoodz.Info

PetFoodz.Info — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:46:24 +0000

Are these original tags? Or Tags that have been implemented in later HTML standards?

By: danieldigriz

danieldigriz — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:47:10 +0000

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By: somecallmejosh

somecallmejosh — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:36:10 +0000

@Rich,

I used to use the address element alot, but now I use hCard microformat instead. http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:19:34 +0000

According to Opera, only 15% of the forms contains a label element. And from my experience, I was almost surprised that so many used it…

is probably the most underused semantical tag in forms. I see many have “seen the light” and uses CSS to layout a form, but still uses div/span to format a label.

By: David Hucklesby

David Hucklesby — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:07:46 +0000

My solution to the Q tag not being fully supported in IE is to use a small .htc file that I created. Much easier than deleting, then adding back quotes, especially if you use “curly” quotes and have nested quotes.

Of course, this does not work for visitors that have IE’s security settings set to “high” – so I add coloring and/or italics to quoted text for this eventuality.