Re: FN-FORUM: FW: ADH WebCreations

date posted 28th June 2007 19:19

Yes you have a point but mine was only one of a few examples, obviously
yours is better not that I didnt know it just didnt write it :p

But to my defence (lol) if you are only ever going to use that span class
once then it doesnt really matter, does it?

Martin
atdc


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Johnson (Neogic) F" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 7:22 PM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: FW: ADH WebCreations



Martin wrote:
> but basically if you wanted to change the text colour for example
> 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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Ben Johnson, Neogic Web Solutions
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