Semantic Markup

Semantic Markup is the careful selection of [[HTML]] or [[XHTML]] tags to best represent each element on a web page. It is a vital practice to ensure proper information architecture on a web page in earlier versions of web browsers. Before web standards had become popular tags were used in order to achieve a specific visual style rather than to describe the content. It was surrounding the conventions that guide the proper use of markup tags are decided per document by the [[DTD]] many DTDs are written and maintained by the [[W3C]] using tags for their intended purpose helps automated programs such as search engines to better process the information leading to better interoperability and search placement. For this reason semantic markup is often the first step of search engine optimization. It also helps users that may not be browsing your content on a computer monitor but a PDA or text only device examples tag goes around paragraphs of text a or can be used for listing items such as navigation links or instructions the , tags are used for topic headings not to change the size of text