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Jun 19th, 2002, 11:46 AM
#1
Thread Starter
Stuck in the 80s
<font>??
I know that the <font> tag is depricated, but what's it's replacement? Sometimes I can use the <div> tag and a stylesheet, but that tag leaves a newline after it's closed. So now I'm using the <span> tag when I need to manipulate text. Is this how it should be done or is there something that I'm missing?
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Jun 19th, 2002, 11:50 AM
#2
Frenzied Member
Span is exactly how it should be done.
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Jun 19th, 2002, 01:30 PM
#3
Frenzied Member
Yeah span is correct, although you should use a more appropriate tag if there is one, e.g. use <abbr> if the selected text is an abbreviate, or <acronym> if it's, well, and acronym  , etc, i.e. only use span when there is no more appropriate a tag.
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Jun 19th, 2002, 02:10 PM
#4
Black Cat
I'd try to just apply a style to the best html tag that represents the content - span and div make it easy to apply arbitrary styles to text, but the other tags better represent your content.
Josh
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Jun 19th, 2002, 05:28 PM
#5
Thread Starter
Stuck in the 80s
Cool, thanks  I was really confused about this for some reason.
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