Question about the use of the i element to display icons
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Hello Anthony,
I noticed that there is extensive use of the
<i>
element throughout the templates in order to display the icons. This results in having several<i class="..."></i>
blocks without any text.Since the
<i>
element is supposed to be used with text, an author might have used it inside the post body in order to give emphasis to some words.In that case, I try to imagine how a search engine would value the existence of multiple
<i>
elements throughout the page, some of them enclosing text and some others not enclosing any text.My thought is that the search engine could be confused by this. The empty
<i>
tags could mean that the author is using the<i>
element for something different than emphasizing text (which actually happens now) and thus automatically undervalue any text enclosed in<i>
elements as well.I was wondering if it would be better to use another element for the icons, for instance
<span>
. I tested it and it seems to work well and validates without any issues.I’m not an expert in this field and I hope I am not exaggerating here. But I’d really like to hear your thoughts about this.
Thanks in advance,
George
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