[thelist] semantic markup

Tim Beadle tsb at wigner.ioppublishing.com
Tue Jun 1 09:11:44 CDT 2004


On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 06:29:39PM -0500, Drew Gilmore wrote:
> Thing is, it's not just list elements. I often write educational 
> materials for work, and as is often the standard in print, I'll use 
> bold to indicate the first appearance of a new vocabulary word. I know 
> that <b> is discouraged, but I've never been quite sure whether <em> or 
> <strong> would be more appropriate semantically. 

You'll want the <dfn> tag, in that particular case. You can then style it (bold
or whatever) how you like.

Tim
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