On Aug 16, 2005, at 10:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sam Brown wrote:
I'm not sure I would put these book titles
in <a> tags unless they are actually anchoring
something.
they are not anchoring anything. <strong> isn't what i want and
<b> is deprecated (?), so what is the practice to "highlight" a
word or words?
<b> is not deprecated, it just has no semantic value and in the fight
to get people to markup their content semantically instead of
visually, <b> and <i> became clear targets. Unfortunately, this means
that many people think they should use <strong> and <em> when they
really should use <b> and <i>. It's similar to the people who bend
over backwards in order to put tabular data in some sort of floating
list construct, just because they think that CSS-styled markup should
not have the table tag.
From your description, it sounds like you want the <b> or <span>
tag. You want book titles to be bold; there is no clear tag for a
book title (although there was a thread earlier in the year
advocating <cite> I think), so you want a tag with semantic meaning
like span or b. Then, add a semantic-like class name, such as:
<b class="bookTitle">Innocents Abroad</b>
Then style the class as you see fit.
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