Posted by Toby Inkster on 11/22/86 11:47

janecki wrote:

> 2) After creating new tag:
> <window title="TITLE">MESSAGE</window>

XHTML doesn't allow you to create new tags at will. The X (extensibility)
part of XHTML comes from the fact that it's easy the for standards setters
(i.e. browser makers, etc) to create extended versions of XHTML for
particular purposes -- for example, the XHTML+Voice standard for
interactive voice pages (currently only supported by Opera 7.5+ on Windows
2000/XP); and XHTML+MathML+SVG. The X part of XHTML doesn't really help
ordinary folk like you and me to create new elements like the above.

It looks to me like more suitable markup for your example might be:

<div class="window">
<h2>Title</h2>
<div>
Message.
</div>
</div>

you can then use CSS to style that how you like. For example:

.window { border: 2px solid #060; margin: 1em; padding: 0; }
.window H2 { margin: 0; padding: 4px; background: #060; color: white; }
.window DIV { margin: 0; padding: 4px; color: #060; background: white; }

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