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thekungfuman
on March 6, 2012
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Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for u...
Does using the <i> tag have any negative effect on the semantic markup of a page? I see that it doesn't impact screen-readers but what about if someone is trying to parse your HTML?
fortawesome
on March 6, 2012
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Should also work just fine with the <span> tag. <i> is just shorter. I went with the same method Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 is using for their fixed-size icons:
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/base-css.html#icons
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