Is it a bad practice to use divs for styling purposes?
- by caisah
I've seen lately a lot of discussions about this new concept called oocss and I was wondering if it is a bad practice to wrap your main tags in divs only for styling/page layout purposes.
I'm asking this because I see some frameworks like Twitter Bootstrap use such a method.
What are the implications of such a markup from a semantic and accessibility point of view?
For example:
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="span4">
<nav class="nav">...</nav>
</div>
<div class="span8">
<a href="#" class="btn btn-large">...</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
instead of
<div class="menu">
<nav class="nav">...</nav>
<a href="#" class="bttn">...</a>
</div>
