[WSG] Styling Text...

[Chris Stratford]

Hey WSG, I am just writing because I have been wondering if there is a better way of styling text. Since <B><U><I> etc... are all outlawed and now depreciated... How do you style your inner <P> text? At the moment, when I have a paragraph and I want to bold a word, i use: <span class="bold"> And in the stylesheet I have a series of:     .bold{font-weight:bold;}     .underline{text-decoration:underline;}     .italic{font-style:italic;} So a bold italic word which is also underlined is just: <span class="bold italic underline">word</span> I am sure that there is a better way because this method is becomming SOOooooOooo sooooo very verbose! An example, it used to be <b></b> 7 characters for bold, now is <span class="bold"></span> 26 Characters... Dont think I dont know about <em>'s etc... but how about italic etc...? I know the idea of stylesheets is to have styles that are specific for the purpose... But what if I just want to have underlined text, or just italic, or bold, just generic bold,underlined,italic text?? Say if I were to code a BBCODE system into my Blog etc... for myself. What would I use to keep it standards compliant? Thanks for the help! I hope its not too confusing! :S - Chris Stratford