[WEB4LIB] Re: CSS-2 "solution" and Font Tags

Jennifer Heise jahb at lehigh.edu
Thu Apr 19 17:47:11 EDT 2001


Er. Why wouldn't you use P Class="whatever" for different kinds of
paragraphs rather than making whole paragraphs bold or whatever?

Craighton Hippenhammer wrote:
> 
> I really don't understand why font tags are deprecated.  It seems to me that CSS limit and/or complicate HTML coding.  To have to nest font instructions up front makes it difficult to make minor variations on one's theme that just rub my hide raw.  For example:  nesting font instructions inside <P> tags:  what if I want some paragraphs separate and some I don't want a blank space in between.  And then, of course, if you have many tags nested....   re:  <P><STRONG><I>...  Grr.  And then let's put some of the text in a table.  Oh, goody.  Ever seen what the differences are there between Netscape and IE?
> 
> Oh, what fun we're having.
> 
> Craighton Hippenhammer
> Information Technology Librarian
> Olivet Nazarene University
> chhammer at olivet.edu
> 
> >>> Andrew Mutch <amutch at waterford.lib.mi.us> 04/19/01 11:14AM >>>
> One of the benefits of a long commute is that you can turn over in your head those
> problems from the work day.  So it was with my CSS layout problem last night....
> 
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