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, say, a text paragraph that mentions a program command inside > the text, just as it could mention a name, should I switch to completely > different markup when the command is so long that it should appear on a > line of its own? I don't think so.
If you're only mentioning a single command, sure, that's that span could be for. But a single command wouldn't be an entire line ... but if you were to mention a multi-line snippet of code, that WOULD be a paragraph. At least to me. Sometimes I think the entire <span> tag doesn't really fit with CSS. It's conceptually just a <div> that's set to display:inline ... you could do the same things by simply styling the <em> or <strong> tags appropriately and (to me) much more semantically. Or using the <code> tag ... -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/
