Tag soup is the mess of
<font> tags, nested
<table>s,
background attributes, dozens of
class attributes,
<center> or
<div align=center> tags, et cetera, that vastly increase the size of a web page and make it difficult to maintain—costing time and money. Although making sure your pages are valid can go a long way, tag soup can
often validate.
The opposite of tag soup is
SemanticMarkup.
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