[thelist] book and author names - use the cite tag or span?

Joshua Olson joshua at waetech.com
Sun Sep 21 17:40:12 CDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dunstan Orchard" <dunstan at 1976design.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 6:25 PM


> If I mention the name of a book and an author in a web page, should I have
any
> special tags around the names?
>
> I'm always a bit confused as to the use of the <cite> tag, but that's the
only
> one I can see might fit.

Dunstan,

Cite tag is the tag to use in this case:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#h-9.2.1

Style it to your taste using CSS.

<><><><><><><><><><>
Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com
706.210.0168



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