Del Wegener wrote:
>> Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>>> On Mon, 21 May 2007, david wrote:
>>>
that each line is
easily handled as a separate paragraph, with CSS controlling line
spacing and left/right margins.
>
> Just to add my two cents worth. When writing mathematics one frequently
> Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 May 2007, david wrote:
>>
>>> that each line is
>>> easily handled as a separate paragraph, with CSS controlling line
>>> spacing and left/right margins.
Just to add my two cents worth. When writing mathematics one frequently
must display a formula whi
Blake Haswell wrote:
> david wrote:
>> Update: after posting that, I saw someone else mention song lyrics or
>> poetry. Being a writer of both, all I can say is - that each line is
>> easily handled as a separate paragraph, with CSS controlling line
>> spacing and left/right margins.
>
> But each
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, david wrote:
>
>> Update: after posting that, I saw someone else mention song lyrics or
>> poetry. Being a writer of both, all I can say is - that each line is
>> easily handled as a separate paragraph, with CSS controlling line
>> spacing and left/ri
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, david wrote:
>
>> Why would you need to do all that? You just put your inline quotation or
>> program code in its own paragraph and adjust your margins that way. Why
>> would you need to use :before or :after pseudo-elements at all?
>
> If I have, sa
On 5/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 22 May 2007, Blake Haswell wrote:
> >
> Of course, in XHTML 2.0, they will be doing away with the tag.
>
> Don't count this as a victory. They're replacing it with the The
> quick brown ... syntax. So, clearly, the W3C believ
> On Tue, 22 May 2007, Blake Haswell wrote:
>
>> I think there are only two really appropriate ways to mark-up poetry.
>> Using tags, or using paragraphs to mark-up the stanza's and the
>> tag to show line-breaks. Possibly using an OL to mark it up as an
>> ordered list, but that's only an option
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Blake Haswell wrote:
> I think there are only two really appropriate ways to mark-up poetry.
> Using tags, or using paragraphs to mark-up the stanza's and the
> tag to show line-breaks. Possibly using an OL to mark it up as an
> ordered list, but that's only an option if you
david wrote:
> Update: after posting that, I saw someone else mention song lyrics or
> poetry. Being a writer of both, all I can say is - that each line is
> easily handled as a separate paragraph, with CSS controlling line
> spacing and left/right margins.
But each line is *not* a paragraph. Each
On Mon, 21 May 2007, david wrote:
> Update: after posting that, I saw someone else mention song lyrics or
> poetry. Being a writer of both, all I can say is - that each line is
> easily handled as a separate paragraph, with CSS controlling line
> spacing and left/right margins.
I don't think it's
On Mon, 21 May 2007, david wrote:
> Why would you need to do all that? You just put your inline quotation or
> program code in its own paragraph and adjust your margins that way. Why
> would you need to use :before or :after pseudo-elements at all?
If I have, say, a text paragraph that mentions a
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
> On May 22, 2007, at 3:32 PM, david wrote:
>
>>> I would be interested in seeing your pure css solution for inserting a
>>> carriage return in the middle of a paragraph (or similar block element
>>> which is semantically a single unit, but nevertheless needs a newline
On May 22, 2007, at 3:32 PM, david wrote:
>> I would be interested in seeing your pure css solution for
>> inserting a
>> carriage return in the middle of a paragraph (or similar block
>> element
>> which is semantically a single unit, but nevertheless needs a
>> newline)
>> without adding
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, david wrote:
>
>> Why would you need to start a new line in the middle of a paragraph? I
>> think that if you think about it, you'll find you're doing it to put a
>> different item inside it, like a list?
>
> A fairly common case is a longish express
david wrote:
> Richard Grevers wrote:
>> On 5/21/07, Bob Easton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Francesco Rizzi wrote:
So, my question for the list is:
why should we use css rules in this scenario instead of tags ?
>>> Let's call it separating content (HTML) from presentation (CSS). Use
On Mon, 21 May 2007, david wrote:
> Why would you need to start a new line in the middle of a paragraph? I
> think that if you think about it, you'll find you're doing it to put a
> different item inside it, like a list?
A fairly common case is a longish expression, such as an inline
quotation o
Different solution:
Content and style the p element accordingly to achieve the
spacing with different margins/paddings for top and bottom. You save
code and the whole thing becomes more clear to read aswell.
Inside the p element feel free to use . br is a line break,
nothing else. Its not somethin
Richard Grevers wrote:
> On 5/21/07, Bob Easton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Francesco Rizzi wrote:
>>> So, my question for the list is:
>>> why should we use css rules in this scenario instead of tags ?
>> Let's call it separating content (HTML) from presentation (CSS). Use
>> technologies for
and have
> no semantic value. Those are presentational markup that should never
> have been in HTML.
I disagree. In terms of song lyrics, poetry, and sometimes even
mailing addresses I generally think that is a perfectly
acceptable solution that *does* have semantic value and fulfils the
requi
On 5/21/07, Bob Easton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Francesco Rizzi wrote:
> >
> > So, my question for the list is:
> > why should we use css rules in this scenario instead of tags ?
>
> Let's call it separating content (HTML) from presentation (CSS). Use
> technologies for their intended, and st
Francesco Rizzi wrote:
>
> So, my question for the list is:
> why should we use css rules in this scenario instead of tags ?
Let's call it separating content (HTML) from presentation (CSS). Use
technologies for their intended, and standards compliant, purposes. Use
1) Use HTML for well struc
On 5/19/07, Roger Roelofs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 1. Your site needs visual consistency. Using css helps that.
> 2. CSS gives you more control over how much vertical space you want.
> 3. The cleaner/more semantic/smaller your html, the easier it is to
> maintain.
> 4. Using html element
If you don't want to use CSS,why not add several to get the space you
require.?
From: "Francesco Rizzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org
Subject: [css-d] Vertical Space Grudge Match: br vs css
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 22:05:33 -0400
Consider an h
On 5/19/07, Francesco Rizzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Consider an hypothetical situation:
> the project requirements call for some vertical space between a certain
> element on your web page (picture an horizontal line, like an hr), and a
> second element (picture a textbox).
>
> There's many wa
Consider an hypothetical situation:
the project requirements call for some vertical space between a certain
element on your web page (picture an horizontal line, like an hr), and a
second element (picture a textbox).
There's many ways you can achieve this effect. My instinct would be to give
the s
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