[DEMUG] HTML question

Robert Munger zipity at finegarden.com
Tue Feb 19 15:56:06 EST 2008


Wouldn't a span tag work?

Bob


On Feb 18, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Dick Atlee wrote:

> If there's anyone out there who knows how to work with HTML directly  
> (as
> opposed to through a graphical development environment), I'd  
> appreciate
> very much an answer to an HTML question on fonts/styles.
>
> I've done a lot of HTML development, but only via the basics in  
> code. At
> this point I find I'm trying to expand my basic HTML working  
> knowledge,
> which has worked for me for many years, to include style sheets, so I
> can get away from using the <font> tag.
>
> The problem is, in my O'Reilly's reference I haven't been able to find
> any freestanding font change technique that will allow a style class  
> to
> be specified "midsentence", so to speak.  It appears it can only be  
> done
>  in the context of tags like <p> or <td>.  If you want to specify a
> change in font midline or between two adjacent lines, you're  
> apparently
> stuck, because you'd have to use a new <p> tag to specify the new  
> class,
> which would force a blank line to appear at that point.
>
> If anyone have any insights into this, I'd appreciate it.  Thanks.




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