Presentation Module

Reference: *Presentation Module at the W3C

Elements in this Module

Inline Presentation (Support Module)

big, small, sub, sup, i, b, tt

Block Presentation (Support Module)

hr

Description

The Presentation Module contains elements which control the visual presentation of a page, often without having a semantic meaning. I must admit that, with the exception of hr, I almost never use the elements in this module, preferring to use CSS instead, in order to separate style from content.

I do find hr useful, however, for text-only browsers (such as *Lynx) which can display a horizontal rule as a row of dashes (for example): it can be a handy way to separate a footer visually from the rest of the page. For graphical browsers, there are usually better ways to make the footer content distinct and I would use CSS to prevent display of the rule in these browsers.