Hi Patrick, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Lauke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 1:43 PM Subject: RE: [WSG] Style PRE with word wrap?
But to reiterate: <h1> has semantic connotations - the content it marks up is a heading. <pre>, on the other hand, does not provide any indication of what's inside, only how it's displayed. ------------------------------------------ Yes, absolutely. BUT what I'm harping on about here is that if you set your basic font in the body (or somewhere up there :-) you could then use <h1> in the html without qualifying it in any way with CSS, so long as you are happy with the way the browser displays it. (and it's not IE, of course!). You probably wouldn't do this, but it illustrates the point. The <h1> says 'this is a heading' no more, no less, and the <pre> says 'this is some preformatted text', no more, no less. Neither really tells you 'exactly' what it's going to look like. OK, you 'expect' the <h1> stuff to be larger (which it isn't always) and you 'expect' the <pre> to appear in Courier font with white space etc, but you personally haven't defined either. The 'formatting' is done elsewhere (in this case, by the browser's interpretation, NOT in the html markup, nor indeed in the CSS in this example. So I can't see the difference. OK, I'm not going to labour this or do it to death, but I can't grasp this. :-) Bob McClelland, Cornwall (U.K.) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
