Philip TAYLOR wrote:

> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> Glamsmash Productions wrote:
>>> I created my company's website in Sea Monkey Composer (I love the
>>> editor)
>>
>> Is this a new web site?  The code underneath looks very much 1990s. New
>> work should be DOCTYPE HTML 4.01 Strict, instead of Transitional. Are
>> you transitioning from older legacy pages?
> 
> There are, sadly, still valid reasons for using HTML 4.01 Transitional.
> Consider the following report :
> 
>> I discovered today that I need to use the <S> element in what was,
>> until now, an HTML 4.01 Strict document.  The reason : CSS
>> "text-decoration" allows only one value, and thus a stretch of text
>> cannot be both struck- through (as per MSS) and underlined (used to
>> indicate the stretch of text to which a dynamically-displayed
>> lexicographic note applies).
> 
> HTML 4.01 Strict does not allow <S> and hence an element in HTML 4.01
> Strict cannot be both struck-through and underlined.

<s> is deprecated. One should use <strike> ... </strike> instead. This 
works, but of course <u> is deprecated as well.

<p>Text is <strike><u>struck-through and underlined</u></strike>.</p>

Of course, this thread isn't a SeaMonkey problem, but one of web design.

-- 
   -bts
   -This space for rent, but the price is high
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