Posted by Ben C on 12/04/07 08:18

On 2007-12-04, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> In article
[...]
>> > I dont know much about CSS, but in order to get the same colours all
>> > the time, I try
>> >
>> > message_ok { color: #ff0000; }
>> > message_fail { color: #008000; }
>> >
>> > Then
>> > <font class="message_ok">Success!<font>
>> > <font class="message_fail">Something went wrong...<font>
>> >
>> > But, why does this not work?
>>
>> There is the tiniest possible reason, a missing stop sign. Try
>> .message_ok { color: #ff0000;} The stop is the class indicator in
>> CSS. The id indicator is #
>
> Oops and there's more, I did not read on... You can't have <font
> class=...>

Why not? As far as I can see it's valid and OK and works (although using
<font> at all is deprecated).

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