Talk:Div and span

message: I'm not sure this page should exist, but I'll clean it up anyways. - Crenner 03:27, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Where can I find which span and div classes can be used with Wikipedia? --Abdull 15:32, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Help:HTML in wikitext. --Max 14:00, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Does not actually answer the question and sends people back here. — LlywelynII 04:17, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia span and div 

message: I don't get an idea of why one should need to label elements within a web page with "id" or "class". I wouldn't mind a bit more educational content. The examples with a name and a date don't say why anyone would want to put labels on those elements and what one can do with this. __meco 19:30, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Very good questions, meco.  I've added some stuff to the artticle to try to answer them.  Hope it helps. --Nigelj 21:09, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some more explanation could be useful 

message: A "Too technical" tag has been added to this article. Taken in conjunction with the "Too conversational" complaint just above, I would suggest that that may mean that we have the balance about right.  (And that you can't please all of the people all of the time, of course :-)
More seriously, this is a technical and complex topic if the reader is encouraged to think about it to any depth. That, coupled with a slightly discursive style, may hopefully encourage many but our least interested readers to think more deeply about the topic, in a wider context than it is normally given. By wider context I mean
;in terms of users other than the normal web-visitor :including search engine bots etc,
;in terms of disability discrimination :e.g. screen-readers
;in wide timescales :many web pages, that are currently still readable and important, were added to the WWW up to 10 or more years ago
I hope that rather than complaining with simple template-tags, more interested wikipedians may consider researching some of the sources and helping improve the overall quality of the article themselves. --Nigelj (talk) 21:46, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is terribly technical. Readers are not going to ponder this page, they will simply give up and go elsewhere to find information. Like me, right now. Ikip (talk) 00:14, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too technical 

message: The section "Styling with CSS" covers two different topics.  I think it should be split into two.
--UW @ 69.91.160.228 (talk) 15:44, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate CSS and text to speech 

message: I notice that User:Ringbang recently blanked the whole article.  I also note that he has recently been reminded of the correct procedures for nominating articles for deletion.  Hopefully, the same considerations can be applied here. --Nigelj (talk) 22:24, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Part of his argument was that it was Original Research and/or a 'manual'/'guidebook'. This page explains why and how the items are used, but that does not make it a 'howto' page. Without examples of usage, the description if the elements is incomplete. Hymek (talk) 15:10, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  This article should be merged with HTML element. Too much of an uncited guidebook without discussion of history or significance. Plastikspork (talk) 00:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: HTML element is already a large article. The idea is to be splitting things out of parent articles to discuss in more detail, where there is more to say and an interested audience (as there currently are for all things web-related), not merging them back in.  If you want more discussion of history or significance, have you considered researching and adding that yourself? --Nigelj (talk) 14:34, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I did do some research, and I concluded that there was no interesting history beyond what should be included in an article about HTML elements.  Thanks! 05:19, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

text: This article should be moved to wikibooks. It is either a tutorial or nothing of interest. Macaldo (talk) 08:28, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion? 

message: This section contains two examples which link to w3c pages -- these now link to the same place, a very long page, and it is not at all clear what should be pointed to.
Hymek (talk) 09:43, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Differences and default behavior 

message: I have used these two tags for more than a decade but I have never given it much thought. Is DIV an abbreviation of "divider"? Anyone know?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.25.184.131 (talk) 11:12, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think of it as a "division" and something that "spans" across something, that is letters. - Random Guy.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.96.180.188 (talk) 13:28, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Agreed.  refers to a span of characters (within one paragraph), and  refers to a division of the document (across any amount of characters and paragraphs). — ¾-10 03:27, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  What do DIV and SPAN mean? 

message: http://html.net/tutorials/css/lesson8.php
so as you can see, the wiki article is lots of words, that don't really explain it at the right level
my personal adivce, throw out the current article and get permission to copy the tutorial or something like
just my two cents  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.195.10.169 (talk) 22:42, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the current article is essentially industry jargon and should be scrapped in favor of another written in English. Could not care less about the editor's  opinion about the suitability of < em > versus < span >. What I need to know is how to deal with div clear issues that screw up Wikipedia formatting. — LlywelynII 03:44, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: much better explanation here