<div> instead of <p>?

ElMiko · Today, 10:06 AM

This may be recency bias, but i feel like I've been seeing more and more epubs that use <div> to enclose basic text instead of <p>. That is, narry a <p> to be found throughout the whole book.

To my untrained eye this seems... kinda puzzling. Is there a good reason for this kind of substitution? Does <p> have outlier cases where it fails and <div> doesn't?

Jellby · Today, 01:16 PM

Probably generated with some software that creates only <div>s and <span>s?

KevinH · Today, 01:21 PM

Replacing p with div is just horrible from a semantic meaning basis. Code like that is broken imho, and as Jellby stated ... probably machine generated.

Today, 10:06 AM	#1
ElMiko Evangelist Posts: 447 Karma: 65460 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Kindle	<div> instead of <p>? This may be recency bias, but i feel like I've been seeing more and more epubs that use <div> to enclose basic text instead of <p>. That is, narry a <p> to be found throughout the whole book. To my untrained eye this seems... kinda puzzling. Is there a good reason for this kind of substitution? Does <p> have outlier cases where it fails and <div> doesn't?

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Today, 01:16 PM	#2
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,549 Karma: 19500001 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	Probably generated with some software that creates only <div>s and <span>s?

Today, 01:21 PM	#3
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,761 Karma: 5706256 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Replacing p with div is just horrible from a semantic meaning basis. Code like that is broken imho, and as Jellby stated ... probably machine generated.