Posted on: 3/11/2010 By: Chris Coyier
Quite a lot of people weighed in on this poll that went out in January. The question was:
Should tags like em and strong go <em>(outside)</em> punctuation characters, or (<strong>inside them</strong>)?
Like many polls around here, the question was interesting and stirred up some great conversation, but the question itself was probably flawed. There were only two choices: outside and inside, referring to placement of the HTML tags. So if “outside”, in the example in the question above, the parentheses would be italicized by the <em> tags. If “inside”, in the same example above, the parentheses would be regular text and the text inside them would be bolded by the <strong> tags.
What I was expecting was someone to chime in with the “absolute official rules on the right way to do it according to the typographic gods of the land.” That didn’t really happen. Instead the general consensus was “it depends.”
As for the poll results, at the time of this writing, 6,261 people have voted and the results are 55% in favor of “inside”:
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