California Office of Statewide Health Planning & Development

OSHPD Help With New XHTML Templates

The new templates feature positional CSS to accomplish all formatting. The intention here is that there be no markup in a page for the purpose of look and feel -- just information. This is quite different from our previous site where <ul> would be used by itself just for indenting text or lots of <br />s to create space between items. These are no longer acceptable, at least from the state's perspective.

Basically, if you need a heading you use a heading tag. All other content will be in unordered/ordered lists or paragraph tags. All spacing will be achieved through the use of classes and ids that link back to CSS.