I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
I would encourage you to take a look at the HTML output from tools like Adobe Dreamwever or other similar WYSIWYG HTML editors. It's quite often horrendous unintelligible code that's functionally useless for anything except being used in the editor that generated it or displayed in a web browser.
As a general rule, when you see that type excessive tag usage, it's a code generator of some sort that's to blame. Sometimes you do need a lot of <div> elements (see for example Bootstrap dialogs, they actually do need all the involved <div>'s to properly handle styling in a uniform manner), but most of the time it's a case of lazy code generation, not actual need.
Styles are often a more complicated case to concretely diagnose though, but most cases seem to be people trying to circumvent some of the behavior of CSS (usually because they don't understand how to actually use it to do what they want in a much more efficient way).
I would encourage you to take a look at the HTML output from tools like Adobe Dreamwever or other similar WYSIWYG HTML editors. It's quite often horrendous unintelligible code that's functionally useless for anything except being used in the editor that generated it or displayed in a web browser.
As a general rule, when you see that type excessive tag usage, it's a code generator of some sort that's to blame. Sometimes you do need a lot of
<div>elements (see for example Bootstrap dialogs, they actually do need all the involved<div>'s to properly handle styling in a uniform manner), but most of the time it's a case of lazy code generation, not actual need.Styles are often a more complicated case to concretely diagnose though, but most cases seem to be people trying to circumvent some of the behavior of CSS (usually because they don't understand how to actually use it to do what they want in a much more efficient way).
Thanks, Austin. I would check it out.