I’m not that new to CSS but I am also far from a veteran of it so I was wondering, do you even have to use html to design a web page if you know all of the CSS neccessary?

Ooka - 03 September 2007 08:59 PM

I’m not that new to CSS but I am also far from a veteran of it so I was wondering, do you even have to use html to design a web page if you know all of the CSS neccessary?

You mean you just want to develop a big case of divitis?

use proper html tags because html browsers use them. P is a paragraph tag, but what is it with that class again? oh let me look at the styles sheet that styles nothing but divs.

In this case you may as well just use tables.

stay semantically correct and set rules for html tags. Things will go much farther.

Ooka - 03 September 2007 08:59 PM

I’m not that new to CSS but I am also far from a veteran of it so I was wondering, do you even have to use html to design a web page if you know all of the CSS neccessary?

I think the bottom line is this -

1 HTML determines document structure/semantics
2 CSS is used for document layout/display
3 Javascript is used to provide interactivity

In practice these distinctions get somewhat blurred.  Thus

a. Using HTML tags such as <b>, <br> and <hr> affect document layout/display
b. Using CSS pseudo-classes, such as :hover, makes the document interactive
c. You can change the other aspects of the document - structure and layout - via Javascript

Nevertheless, it would never be logical to think that any one of these elements renders one of the others obsolete.