Spaghetti Markup

Test Weight: normal
Separating design and structure of the website carries great advantages. The sharper the distinction, the more independent the two areas are. A lack of such a distinction is also called a "spaghetti mark-up" or a "tag-soup" (from the term "HTML tag").

Nowadays it is easy to save colours, type fonts, design images and to a large extent even the layout of the website in CSS files (CSS = Cascading Style Sheet).

Further information:
http://www.style-sheets.de/guide/grundlagen/warum_css
http://www.vorsprungdurchwebstandards.de/theory/retro-coding/

Hint for IT technicians: "Code" does not refer to javascript, but to HTML source.
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Test Results

  • Total 100% 1095090
  • Not tested 0% 0
  • Warning 76.3% 836611
  • Suggestion 13.3% 145725
  • Hint 3.5% 39030
  • Passed 6.7% 73724
  • Total amount of tests run.
  • This test was not carried out for this website.
  • The tested website contains spaghetti mark-up; morevover, it is not or not fully defined in CSS Format.
  • The tested website contains some spaghetti mark-up in CSS format.
  • The tested website contains a small amount of spaghetti mark-up in CSS format.
  • No spaghetti mark-up was found on the tested website.

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