Dear Eoin: It is important not to get too carried away with CSS and divitis. For instance, using the <strong> element isn't necessarily bad in certain contexts such as a book title or something that should contextually be bold. Another example is if you want section headers to be twice as big as the text. Don't create a new class for it, just use the <h2> element, etc. Not all (X)HTML is bad. If you aren't sure what exactly bolding is for (W3C explains the element as "indicating stronger emphasis"). In my opinion, using the <strong> element in most cases is not a no-no.
For all other uncertainties, think of your page as a research paper for school. Without any styling, does it make since? Does where you use a <h1> make since in a paper heirarchy/outline? That is the true nature of HTML, to mark up research documents. CSS is simply design. In peace, Amy M Ostrom Web Interface Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 8/3/06, Eoin Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Occasionally I find that I need a style that's essentially exactly the > same > as a previously made style (for example, the same BG colour and font-size) > but the new style needs something extra like bolding or something small > like > that. > > > > It seems strange to create a whole new style just for adding bold text but > then I can't think of any other way of doing it. I've ended up creating > styles named things like 'makeBold' with nothing more than "font-weight: > bold" inside them. > > > > I keep thinking this is going against the proper way of doing scalable CSS > but can't think of a way of avoiding creating this extra style, short of > using <strong> tags. > > > > Is this the proper way of adding simple levels of styling? > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > -- In peace, Amy M Ostrom Web Interface Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
