Am I suffering “divitis”? (CSS especialist needed) [closed]

Answer 1

It looks perfect. This should be taken as an example!

One symptom of "divitis" is when you see a list of <div>'s instead of using a <ul>.

Answer 2

You're using <p>, <h*> when you need them so it's correct.

What is bad is using div instead of an appropriate element. There isn't such thing here.

Answer 3

You can start to use the new HTML 5 elements now, with a few JS tricks.

You then get the really useful header, footer, article, aside and menu elements.

Combine that with CSS3's styles for rounded corners, shadows... divitis may have a cure, but we will have to wait to get full support for that.

Answer 4

This is great markup. Good semantic use of all elements. And beautiful use of comments. (Yes I saw this was already answered and voted correct but I am new and looking for some points, had I been here first, wammo!)

Answer 5

I tried the code in FF3.5 and IE8. The background color defined for "header" div, in FF3.5 the entire header div has that color. But in IE8, the background color shows only for the banner and the header h2 in intro div.

So the question is should the background color apply to the entire header div or is it meant only for a specific portion?

And for container div, the attribute class has the value "container". This class is not defined in the css.

Answer 6

Everyone may have a different opinion on this subject, but here's my opinion:

You're not over using <div>.

If you were using <div> when you should be using <h2>, <p>, etc, then you would certainly be doing it wrong. In other words, if you're bending <div> to fit your every purpose, you've got a problem.

Unfortunately, when CSS started to get popular, there were a lot of articles written promoting this practice with titles/themes following a "Use <div> instead of <tagX>!" pattern.