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Posted by mariusholland@hotmail.com on 04/16/07 22:24
On Mar 16, 3:42 am, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Scripsit Reiner Wagner:
>
> > I like to use a tag <red> like the tag <b>, that means I like to use
> > the following:
>
> > <p>This is a <red>test</red></p>
>
> > and the word "test" got the colorred.
>
> You've got several answers, some of them partially correct. You cannot get a
> completely correct answer without giving more information. Why would you
> make the wordred, and in what context?
>
> In HTML as such, you cannot just add tags. In XML containing XHTML tags,
> which might be seen as "extended XHTML", you can, but whether browsers get
> it right is a different issue.
>
> In practice, if you want the word to appear inred, without disclosing any
> information of _why_ it isred, the best approach is
>
> <p>This is a <font color="red">test</font></p>
>
> There's nothing more structural in using <span>; it just makes some people
> think that they are separating content from presentation when they aren't.
>
> Then you might consider even dropping the attribut color="red" and using CSS
> code like
> font { color:red}
> but that would be somewhat unnatural and risky, since someone might later
> add <font size="2"> just to reduce font size without realizing what will
> happen.
>
> If you really _mean_ to _emphasize_ a word and to suggest that the emphasis
> be rendered by the use ofredcolor only, then the best bet is
>
> <p>This is a <strong>test</strong></p>
>
> together with
>
> strong { color:red;
> background: white;
> font-weight: normal; }
>
> in CSS. (<strong> appears in bold by default on most browsers, and
> font-weight: normal turns that off.)
>
> (Why <strong>? Because if you want to usered, then you probably want strong
> emphasis, rather than the one conveyed by <em>.)
>
> --
> Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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