[thelist] CSS and deprecated <font> used within sentence
Robert Goodyear
rob_goodyear at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 25 13:05:54 CDT 2001
I think HTML Tidy does a pretty good job of filtering and converting all font
declarations to CSS styles, including spans, divs and so on. I've used it as a plugin to
Ultraedit32 on PC and on the Mac with BBEdit.
You could find it on download.com I'm sure.
/rg
--- Alastair Murdoch <alastair at cubeit.co.uk> wrote:
> try using <span></span> tags around the word and applying your class to
> them.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of sfmalo
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> Subject: [thelist] CSS and deprecated <font> used within sentence
>
>
> Don't know if there is an answer for this using CSS:
>
> Have a situation where I have a word (name of software) written as follows:
>
> <.b><.strong><.font size="3" color="#0000A0">X<./font><.font size="2"
> color="#800000"><.em><.i>w<./i><./em><./font><.font
> size="3" color="#0000A0">SCAN<./font><./strong><./b>
>
> It may occur within a sentence in a <.td>or a <.p>. I am trying to clean out
> any mention of fonts on the site and make everything CSS. So far, so good
> except for the above-mentioned example which occurs fairly often throughout
> the site. Other software names occur also with the same structure.
>
> I'm stumped. Can't figure out how to make it a class without affecting the
> entire <td> or <p>. Any way to do this using CSS?
>
> Sharon
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> Sharon F. Malone
> "web design and Internet writing services"
> http://www.24caratdesign.com
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