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I’m working on developing a Web 2.0 site, and I’ve been looking at how sites deal with menus and nav-bars. Many sites (like twitter) use UL’s whereas sites such as stackoverflow use div’s that are ID’s containing links.
Is there an advantage to not using UL’s other than it eliminates some IE bugs?
is there an advantage to using UL’s?
Thanks!
I personally use ul/li for all of my menu needs as it makes it clear to even an unstyled browser (Links for example) that it is a menu of some sort and that they are various links that lead to different parts on a website.
Not only that, but the markup is remarkably easy and allows for very interesting things to be done using ul, li, and a to make awesome menu’s with CSS with various options, CSS sprite backgrounds.
Using divs makes this possible as well, but makes the intent less clear. With a browser that does proper CSS layout you won’t notice a difference and the only one that will know is you and the user that does a view-source.
It may make a difference if you need to parse the dom using javascript, it may not…