Can you help me understand leveraging semantic markup

[ClaireH-184886]

Hi, i am trying to understand about leveraging semantic markup but even though i have read the page on the link, i am still not sure of what it means and how i can use it in my site www.in2town.co.uk which has been built using joomla

If anyone can help me understand then that would be amazing and help me understand how it would benefit my site.

[mad2k]

Hi Diane,

from Wiki: 'Semantic HTML is the use of HTML markup to reinforce the semantics, or meaning, of the information in webpages rather than merely to define its presentation (look)..." full document link

Semantic in shortest way does mean structured. Structured from article (and/or text) point of view. ... from other Wiki article "The Semantic Web, as originally envisioned, is a system that enables machines to "understand" and respond to complex human requests based on their..." link

The simplest example of semantic markup are H tags (H1, H2 ... H6), other ... bullets

Non semantic tags are e.g.

• they are semantically neutral ...

Since late 90' semantic markup (and web) are strongly supported by CSS which is responsible for presentation (look) of the web.

So ... summarizing everything what is an element of structured document is semantic markup and everything what is neutral for document structure is non-semantic.

I think it will help you

Marek

[ClaireH-184886]

thank you for that, that helps a lot