[wp-forums] Underline button in Post Editing Toolbar

[Francisco de Azevedo]

Ok, I will. Sometimes when giving long directives I wish I had another
formatting tool other than <em> and <strong> for organizing the reply, but
like I said, really not a big deal.
Thanks for the quick reply Otto.


On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Francisco de Azevedo
> <frandeazevedo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everybody!
> > This is not a very big deal at all, but I've had this doubt in the back
> of
> > my head since I started helping out in the forums. Does anyone know why
> the
> > HTML underline ( <u> ) tag is not supported in the forums? Could it be a
> > security measure?
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Marventus
>
> The <u> tag was deprecated since HTML 4 and was only recently added
> back to the HTML living standard and incorporated into HTML 5.
> Therefore lots of places don't support it.
>
> Really, <u> is a non-semantic tag and should generally not be used.
> It's easily confused with a normal link.
>
> Use <em> and <strong> if you want to add emphasis instead.
>
> -Otto
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