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Posted by richard on 11/01/06 18:46
"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
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> Toby Inkster wrote:
>> The Eclectic Electric wrote:
>>
>>> <p>There was a problem with your submission, problems are <span
>>> class="red">marked in red</span>. For your security, your password and
>>> security question answer fields have been reset.</p>
>>
>> I would have thought <strong class="very"> with the corresponding
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>> strong.very { color: #f22; font-weight: bold }
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>> would be more appropriate.
>>
>>> but the whole paragraph is shown in the default font.
>>
>> It is probably being over-ridden by a more specific part of the
>> stylesheet. Page URL?
>>
>
> Agree with Toby here 'red' is a very bad class name. Something like
> 'warning' or 'critcal' would be better that describe the purpose of the
> class not the styling because the styling may change in the future. What
> would happen if you needed to show a critically important message on your
> website and you had changed the styling so the background is red?
>
Using "reserved" words as class or ID names is just not a good practice.
Since a color name is another way of stating the hex or decimal value, the
interpretation of the use could result in things not wanted.
For instance, "backgound-color:red", "background-color:#F00", and
"background-color:RGB(255,0,0)" all say the same thing.
Whereas using "ared" would not be misinterpreted, but even "reda" might be.
I found this out years ago while learning to program in BASIC.
Saves a lot of confusion if you simply add a character to the beginning of
the reserved word. Not to the end.
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