RE: FN-FORUM: FW: ADH WebCreations

date posted 28th June 2007 19:04

Martin wrote:
> but basically if you wanted to change the text colour for example=20
> in a paragraphy I would something like this:
> some text, some text, some more =
text


.. except that that would be no better than using FONT tags!

The point of CSS is not to swap a code soup of FONT tags for a similar =
mess
of inline SPAN styles (or TABLEs for DIVs), but to mark-up the content
semantically (i.e., label its meaning) and control the presentation =
outside
the page from a centralised stylesheet.

Therefore a better example would be:

some text, some text, some more text
some text, Mr Bob Jones
some text, some text, some more text

We can then control the 'look' of all 'person' references using a rule =
in a
central stylesheet:

SPAN.person { color: red; }

Rather than having presentation rules hard-coded into the content =
itself.
Common mistake, but important for newcomers to CSS to understand early =
on if
we're to avoid a web composed of zillions of TABLE-like nested DIVs and
hard-coded inline styles.

Cheers, Ben

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