Angry Web Designer

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Lists are for bulletpoints not content lists

Why the hell is it that some people will use UL lists for everything?!

I went to a site recently and discovered, through a bit of source peaking to find out how they implemented something, that they had used UL and LI elements for almost everything. They had an activity feed style layout and it was comprised of a UL list. The LI elements on this particular page also had DIV tags in them to store the content, complex stuff including avatar with message and so on. Why would you ever use UL and LI’s for a complex list of content?

They should have just used DIV tags to hold the content and the page size would have almost halved itself.

Navigations and lists are fine but content its a big no-no.

Do you have any other stories about website source pet-peeves?

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