BlueGriffon does not use HTML5 <u> in toolbar.

[Garret Wilson]

The "underline" option in the BlueGriffon toolbar adds:

<span  style="text-decoration: underline;">

But we should strive for semantic HTML. HTML5 has brought back <u> with the semantics of "unarticulated", and most browser will show this as underline. BlueGriffon should use <u> and not some span with CSS styling.

You might say "but the button says 'Underline' and not 'Unarticularted'". Well, your button for "Bold" doesn't say "Strong", but still it (correctly!) uses the <strong> tag.

So please change the underline toolbar button to use the appropriate <u> tag. Thanks.

[Daniel Glazman]

Yes, I am considering an option changing the behaviour of the three
basic styling buttons. Either

i, b and u

or

em, strong and a span with underline style

</Daniel>

[Garret Wilson]

On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 11:23:10 AM UTC-8, Garret Wilson wrote:

Well, your button for "Bold" doesn't say "Strong", but still it (correctly!) uses the <strong> tag.

I misspoke here---your "Bold" button actually does use a <span...> But you got my point---we need a button for <u>, whatever the case. (Actually it would be nice to be able to define our own toolbar, but there are a lot of bugs that have much, much, much higher priority.)