Cheryl, Quickly acknowledging your comments. I can see I'm too rusty/still more ignorant than I thought on this and will spend a bit of time on it. Funny, I could have sworn that I read it was essential to put that last semi-colon; there is unanimity against that memory! Thanks.
Sorry not to have been able to catch up with you while you were here. Sunday afternoon a car demolished our telephone junction box. By the time it was back on Monday my ISP mail server was being serviced/playing up. There were bounces! I had to do other things.... Now off again. Joseph Chacha Joe For a site of laughs and a FREE ezine: www.smilepoetryweekly.com For cricket lovers everywhere: Batty Balls and other Wicket Wit www.ah-mah-son.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Cheryl D. Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:44 PM Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: basic css! > Problem isn't the semi-colon at the end though it could be the double > semi-colon. You don't call custom class using the style attribute in your > html. That is for creating inline styles where it would be: > > <font style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: verdana, > sans-serif; > text-align: left;"> > > You use the class attribute. You probably shouldn't be doing it using the > <font> tag either. > > <p class="preamble">Text</p> > > Or if you are using it inline: > > <p><span class="preamble">preamble text.</span><br> > <span class="main">more text here...</span><br> > <span class="postable">Final bits of whatever.</span></p> > > It would be a bit easier to diagnose if there was a url where we could look > at the problem 'in action' as it were. Other problems is that you mixed html > font syntax in with css syntax. > > Font-color should be color > Font-align should be text-align > > I'm not going to address the issue of specifying text in pt sizes other than > to say that pt size isn't consistent across browser much less cross platform > and cannot be resized in the most commonly used web browser (Internet > Explorer) which can lead to usability/accessibility problems for those on > Mac or high resolution monitors. > > Cheryl D. Wise > Microsoft MVP > WiserWays, LLC > 713 353-0139 > www.wiserways.com > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Harris [ > > This is embedded in the page but is having no effect in IE or in Opera: > > > .preamble {font-size: 10pt; > color: #000000; > font-family: verdana, sans-serif; > font-align: left; ;} > > .postamble {font-size: 10pt; > font-family: arial,sans-serif; > font-align: left; > font-color: #000000; ;} > > .main {font-size: 12pt; > Font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; > font-align: left; > font-color: #000000; ;} > > .number {font-size: 10pt; > font-align: right; > font-color: #bfaf00; ;} > > heading css is working fine; the sheet is within <style></style> tags and I > am calling up style="" inside <font> tags. > > How basic is my error (and what is the error, of course)? > > > ____ . The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM . ____ > To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. > To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: > http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub > > ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ > > You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
