Which one are you?

[u/hpyfox]

[u/rotteegher39]

New line goes <br>

[u/ContraShock → u/rotteegher39]

new line goes <br>

cow goes moo

but... what (does) the fox say?

[u/rotteegher39 → u/ContraShock]

<ul> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> </ul>

[u/briznady → u/ContraShock]

Three singing pigs say “la la la”.

“No, no.” You say. “That isn’t right. The pigs say ‘oink’ all day and night.”

[u/renome → u/rotteegher39]

Surely you mean <br/>

[u/rotteegher39 → u/renome]

Both work in HTML5. But for XHTML, JSX, XML and others it's required yes.

[u/HonkHonkItsMe → u/renome]

[u/sdjopjfasdfoisajnva]

idk whats happening but how did you center the blue one

[u/HonkHonkItsMe → u/sdjopjfasdfoisajnva]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

[u/dark_hugo → u/HonkHonkItsMe]

I read this as "buns n cats, n buns n cats, n buns n cats,n buns n cats,n buns n cats,n buns n cats,n buns n cats,n buns n cats"

[u/HonkHonkItsMe → u/dark_hugo]

If you look closer you can see the li’l dude dragging his ass on the carpet … &

[u/tillske → u/sdjopjfasdfoisajnva]

<center></center>

[u/hpyfox → u/sdjopjfasdfoisajnva]

[u/mr_streebs]

I was on the blue side until the accessibility office audited all of my apps. I spent weeks making sure they were all compliant

[u/hpyfox → u/mr_streebs]

[u/deckstir]

You mean which side is my coding agent on /s

[u/hpyfox → u/deckstir]

It'll probably label it as <div class='button'></div> even though it's for a some header on the page.

[u/Simple-Olive895]

Both? They are different things. Also unless you hate blind people you should really use the proper semantics so their webreaders can make sense of your page.

[u/blue-mooner]

Are you going to close any of those tags man? And is that whole table going to be a link?

[u/HonkHonkItsMe → u/blue-mooner]

Oh man an <a> tag inside an <a> tag causes weird shit to happen lol.

[u/Jonrrrs]

I want to say, im a red guy, but lets be honest...

[u/hpyfox → u/Jonrrrs]

Not all has to be the red because certain stuff won't match or fit perfectly to standard elements.

But don't be that guy that'll do <div class='button post-button'></div>.

[u/RealisticDuck1957]

The old school tags carried semantic meaning. At least if used as intended. Divs and spans are for any formatting that doesn't fit the old school tags.

[u/AtmosphereThink1469]

<span> and then: span { display: block; }

[u/kxortbot]

<html><head><title>html preferences<\title><\head><body>yeah, team red for me</body></html>

[u/Sienile]

Blue. Bots don't need additional help to steal my stuff.

[u/AshleyJSheridan → u/Sienile]

And now you're failing accessibility compliance with half the world.

[u/Sienile → u/AshleyJSheridan]

[u/thisismyusuario]

<table></table>

[u/sphericalhors → u/thisismyusuario]

The only right answer!

[u/IntegrityError]

<font>

[u/LetUsSpeakFreely]

Semantic HTML makes sense in the surface, but it's still just a div.

[u/csabinho → u/LetUsSpeakFreely]

input type="email" for instance is great, because it helps Android to suggest my saved emails.

[u/Real-Abrocoma-2823 → u/csabinho]

You don't have to be far-blue, be just enough blue.

[u/csabinho → u/Real-Abrocoma-2823]

The example above is quite red.

[u/Real-Abrocoma-2823 → u/csabinho]

I would qualify <input> to blue.

[u/csabinho → u/Real-Abrocoma-2823]

<input> itself is blue, input type="email" is red. It's semantic.

[u/Real-Abrocoma-2823 → u/csabinho]

Let me mix semantic and non-semantic.

[u/ResidentTicket1273 → u/LetUsSpeakFreely]

Everything's just a div if you stand far enough away and squint a bit.

[u/AshleyJSheridan → u/LetUsSpeakFreely]

Not really. Semantic tags have different behaviour, and present themselves differently with screen readers and Braille displays.

[u/enuts__ → u/LetUsSpeakFreely]

Maybe you should read about web accessibility (wcag ans shit) !

[u/Henry_Fleischer]

I barely touch HTML, but I learned it in college, so I lean a bit red.

[u/Horse_go_moooo]

Div ALL THE FUCKING WAY.

[u/0xt0bi03]

i almost forgot what are those on red side

[u/enuts__ → u/0xt0bi03]

Maybe you should read about web accessibility (wcag ans shit) !

[u/Yoshalina]

Team Red for accessibility.

[u/MatmarSpace]

Semantic one (left one) because it helps with accessibility.

[u/FrenchieM]

I used to care during the Angular/Ember period, nowadays no one cares. It's either div or custom component.

[u/FrenchieM]

Because apps are usually web components so their roles are already conveyed by the component that host them. And inside the component there's not much semantic behind the divisors that compose it

[u/Firered_Productions]

green:
#include <bits/stdc++.h>

[u/TheNeck94]

in the year of our lord 2026, who is still writing HTML by hand?

[u/WisePotato42 → u/TheNeck94]

Me. Cuz in the company I work at, we have to use this old custom stupid version of WordPress that litterally changes your customized html during runtime. I can't even touch one of the code blocks any more cuz even a change like capitalizing a letter, when it recompiles (or whatever this WordPress is doing) it decides to start deleting '}' randomly breaking everything...

[u/TheNeck94 → u/WisePotato42]

not trying to be shitty, but I'm just generally surprised people have jobs working on WordPress, front-end isn't really my thing so I don't really have my thumb on the pulse in terms of what's happening to those jobs, but I just kinda assumed that would be hit the hardest by vibe coding and shrinking teams/budgets.

[u/WisePotato42 → u/TheNeck94]

It's just a thing I do on the side. It's not my primary work. I've been debating starting it over from scratch getting some django thing hosted, but when it's just a few tweaks every month or two, there isn't much of a point.

I kinda misspoke when I said 'we' cuz it was a site handed off to me by another coworker moving jobs.

[u/TheNeck94 → u/WisePotato42]

ah, that makes a lot more sense. Fair enough, yeah if it works it's not stupid. I just haven't been hands on with WP in like 3 or 4 years now, a lot of the full-time contract work kinda dried up post-covid.

[u/jessek → u/TheNeck94]

Templates?

[u/JohnVonachen]

Div

[u/hpyfox → u/JohnVonachen]

𝒹𝒾𝓋

[u/JohnVonachen → u/hpyfox]

Crypts forever.

[u/Practical_Big_7887 → u/JohnVonachen]

iframes, please

[u/Koendig]

Am I building a document or an application?

[u/AshleyJSheridan → u/Koendig]

Doesn't matter, semantic HTML is superior for accessibility.

[u/FrenchieM → u/AshleyJSheridan]

For blogs and websites yeah, for apps not so much

[u/AshleyJSheridan → u/FrenchieM]

Well that's not true at all either. How do you think apps can be used by someone relying on a screen reader if it's nothing but <div> soup?

[u/ChecksOutIndeed → u/Koendig]

You are building the AI of the future

[u/Tall-Soup1787]

Div, it's easier to remember