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I'm a total newbie to jQuery UI but let me venture an answer... perhaps others can chime in.

The "special" elements like button, ul, li, etc are being used because they represent the content.  This is particularly big now with HTML 5 where they introduce a lot of new elements.  For example, there is a "menu" element that is intended to be used for menus.

From my perspective, HTML was sort of schizophrenic.  It said that it wanted to present the content and not how things were displayed (the styling).  But then they had things like <bold>.  But with time, the styling tags have been deprecated and pulled out and all the styling have been moved to CSS.

Plus, even if they used nothing but div's and span's, they would still need a CSS reset and layer their own styling on after that.  And they would still have to fight against browser differences.  So I don't think it really complicates things much.

HTH,
pedz

Thanks for your reply.

I believe you... but what you are saying is not suppose to be true (especially about the <option> element).  I have similar problems trying to match Chrome and Firefox.  They don't agree about what is "top" of a line of text and they draw the text differently.

There are tons of CSS things now and the CSS reset pages I'm using do not bother with many of them.

The "tool tip" is a term used for two things so I don't know what you mean.  If you mean the little pop up that says "Have a nice day" (or whatever), that is suppose to be either title or something else (which I can't recall but it seems like it was not browser agnostic).  If you mean how the mouse changes from caret to pointer, that should be the css cursor attribute.  Oh... I think now I know what you mean.  On Firefox, it is displayed in the lower left of the page -- the destination of where the link will take you.  I have no idea how to suppress that.

For browser specific stuff, I'd try asking in a browser specific forum (e.g. http://forums.mozillazine.org/ for Firefox).  I get spotty results from stackoverflow.com  There are other forums similar to Stack Overflow.

I'm still hoping someone else will chime in to our discussion with golden words of wisdom.

Sorry, you are right, but there is a poor css support for select/option in browsers, For example ie allows background image only on the select element not on the option element, and chrome supports no background images on both. Further only text content is allowed in the option element, you cannot add an image or checkbox. ...

Using select > option as an example here is not very good. We all know that select elements cannot be effectively styled across browsers. There is no way around that other than replacing the select entirely.

Thanks for your reply Kevin.

Sorry for the long delay on this response.