Dave Pawson wrote:

See my last email for an instance that just happened to me recently.

Having extra nested divs doesn't make your output any less plain. On the other hand, they allow me to create fancier pages with extra non-content images in weird places, which I do need for my current project. Removing most of the style-less divs wouldn't affect your code either way, but would make mine much harder to deal with. :-)

(Note: That's not intended as a slam against you in any way, in case it came off as such. I'm just pointing out that simple-page folk don't lose functionality with the divs there while complex-page folk do lose functionality without them.)

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