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HTMLHelp Forums _ Markup (HTML, XHTML, XML) _ Physical vs logical tags in HTML?

Posted by: Jeet Apr 20 2010, 08:16 AM

hey friends,

I am new to html and nowdays trying to learn it on my own by surfing many tutorials on the net. Sometimes get confused and lost in technical terms like these.

Can anyone help me to understand difference between Physical and logical tags in HTML language?

If possible can you guys give me the list of tags which falls under these 2 categories.

Posted by: Frederiek Apr 20 2010, 10:10 AM

See http://webtips.dan.info/logical.html

Posted by: pandy Apr 20 2010, 10:39 AM

Never heard that use of words before. A more common way to express it is "structural" and "presentational". Must say that I find that both more fitting and self-explanatory.

Posted by: Frederiek Apr 21 2010, 01:15 AM

I agree, I had to look it up.

Posted by: Jeet Apr 22 2010, 02:56 AM

QUOTE(Frederiek @ Apr 20 2010, 08:40 PM)

See http://webtips.dan.info/logical.html

Thank u so much Frederiek, link is very informative..it cleared my doubts.

Posted by: Jeet Apr 22 2010, 02:58 AM

Thank you all for replying..

Posted by: Christian J Apr 22 2010, 04:02 AM

QUOTE(pandy @ Apr 20 2010, 05:39 PM)

Never heard that use of words before. A more common way to express it is "structural" and "presentational". Must say that I find that both more fitting and self-explanatory.

Then there are "semantical", which I guess is a subset of structural/physical.

Posted by: pandy Apr 22 2010, 04:39 PM

Overlapping maybe.

Posted by: Christian J Apr 23 2010, 06:36 AM

I was thinking of elements with a "physical" function but no semantic meaning. But I'm not sure which ones that can be said to be strictly non-semantic. How about LINK, STYLE, SCRIPT, META, A, TITLE, hidden INPUT, etc...?

Posted by: pandy Apr 23 2010, 06:51 AM

I think most of them are semantic and some can be made even more semantic. But I confess I find "semantic" to be a fuzzy label in this context. Sometimes it's even used as a synonym to structural.

Posted by: Christian J Apr 24 2010, 06:39 AM

If you limit yourself to semantics of the content, I think an element like STYLE should not be considered semantic, since its not part of the content, and is only meant to affect the presentation of the content.

Posted by: pandy Apr 24 2010, 09:36 AM

You can't say that about the others except SCRIPT.