On 7 Dec 2009, at 22:03, Jen Strickland wrote: > Regarding how to present a poem, I've had to research this a few times and > another option was to use definition lists. I hadn't discovered using the > pre element. So I looked it up (below). It does seem like it could be a > perfect solution... hmmm...
I'd limit it's use to situations where white space was really significant (for example, a text in a book I have lurking around is about snakes, and formatted in the shape of a snake). > THE PRE ELEMENT > W3C info: Preformatted text: The PRE elementPreformats text with fixed-width > font, preserves the given white-space and line-breaks, usually disables > automatic word-wrapping. Used in the code examples on this page, for example: > <pre> > <ul> <!ELEMENT PRE - - (%inline;)* -(%pre.exclusion;) -- preformatted text --> <ul> is not an inline element, so you can't do this. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
