- From: Bert Bos <bbos@mygale.inria.fr>
- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 23:41:45 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: www-html@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
I wrote: > Keith M. Corbett writes: > > At 01:12 AM 8/14/96 GMT, Gavin Nicol wrote: > > >> Yesterday: <subhed> --> <p><b> > > >> Today: <subhed> --> <p class="subhed"><b> [...] > > >> > > > > Somehow I missed the beginning of this exchange. I wonder if the author of > > this message you quoted should consider something like: > > > > <p><b><subhed class="subhed">...</subhed></b></p> > > > > This is slightly different from, or should be slightly different from: > > > > <p><subhed class="subhed"><b>...</b></subhed></p> > > > > Does anyone know if this "works" in MSIE or Arena? > > > > Seems to me this technique would allow browsers who conform to CSS to format > > the paragraph correctly, while allowing the author to preserve structural > > integrity etc etc. > > > > Seems to me that this technique should work. CSS doesn't mandate any > > particular tag set for HTML, and assuming the CSS inheritance stuff works, > > one should be able to invent tags for this purpose. Or am I missing > > something about CSS? > > It doesn't attach a style to the element, because HTML specifies that > unknown tags should be skipped during parsing. The CSS formatter never > even gets to see them. That reply was a bit short. To clarify: No, there is nothing in CSS itself that prohibits this technique. Given a parser that passes the right information to the formatter (at least element name and class value), CSS is able to handle any element. In that sense, <P class=subhed> is equivalent to <subhed>, except that the stylesheet writer looses the benefit of subclassing, which allows SUBHED to share most of the style rules with P. Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/People/Bos/ INRIA/W3C bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 93 65 77 71 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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