Title: Proper HTML?
Last modified: December 25, 2016

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# Proper HTML?

 *  [mmarin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmarin/)
 * (@mmarin)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-html/)
 * I come across things like this in my source:
    `<div class="meta">Filed under:
   <ul class="post-categories">` Is this sort of orphaned text okay?: “Filed under:”
   without an enclosing block entity, other than the div? If it’s okay DTD-wise,
   is it nevertheless a good idea? It’s making CSS a little difficult.

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 *  [stevarino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevarino/)
 * (@stevarino)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-html/#post-42899)
 * Ohhh….I see what you’re saying… What about changing the <div> to a ?That’s what
   makes sense semantically, although I don’t know if that helps your CSS stylings.
   I just always delete the “Filed under: ” and never thought twice of it. 😀
 *  Thread Starter [mmarin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmarin/)
 * (@mmarin)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-html/#post-42904)
 * The problem is that I want to treat the categories and the date-time separately,
   but they are in the same “meta” division, and there is text in both of these 
   things without a container other than the div. I provisionally decided just to
   get rid of the categories for now, since I don’t have enough to make them worthwhile,
   and deal with the issue later when I have more categories and content.

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 * Last reply from: [mmarin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmarin/)
 * Last activity: [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-html/#post-42904)
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