In the past I've fallen into the trap of creating a special class for rendering lines or separators in an HTML document and assigning the class to a div, ending up with something like <div class="line"></div> or something along those lines. Not only is this not semantic, it's a whole bunch of extra unecessary HTML code which can be simplified by styling and using the often forgotten <hr> tag.
Default style for the hr tag
The default browser styling for the <hr> tag is this:

The Consumer Electronics Show, is one of the largest electronics conventions in the world. Thousands of companies from across the globe, including major companies like Samsung, Intel and Microsoft, hold press conferences there.The show is also well known for containing an enchanting array of gadgets because of its consumer focus, and there was no shortage of awesome new electronics at this year’s CES.  Here’s 5 cool ones that I liked.ASUS Eee Slate  EP121

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