Paragraphs | CSS-Tips

I certain do love little reminders about HTML semantics, notably semantics which are more durable to decide to reminiscence. Scott has an incredible one, starting with this markup:

<p>I'm a paragraph.</p>
<span>I'm additionally a paragraph.</span>
<div>You would possibly hate it, however I am a paragraph too.</div>
<ul>
  <li>Even I'm a paragraph.</li>
  <li>Although I am an inventory merchandise as nicely.</li>
</ul>
<p>I'd trick you</p>
<deal with>Guess who? A paragraph!</deal with>

You could have a look at that markup and say “Hey! You possibly can’t idiot me, solely the <p> parts are “actual” paragraphs!

You would possibly even name out such parts as divs or spans getting used as “paragraphs” a WCAG failure.

However, when you’re considering these kinds of issues, then possibly you’re not conscious that these are really all “paragraphs”.

It’s simple to neglect this since lots of these non-paragraph parts usually are not allowed in between paragraph tags and it often will get all sorted out anyway when HTML is parsed.

The accessibility bits are what I at all times come to Scott’s writing for:

These examples I offered initially of this submit? macOS VoiceOver, NVDA and JAWS deal with all of them as paragraphs ([asterisks] for NVDA, learn on…). […] The purpose being that display readers are in line with HTML, and perceive that “paragraphs” are extra than simply the p factor.

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