- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 22:00:43 -0500
- To: Dataweaver <traveler@io.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
At 06:39 PM 26/03/98 -0600, Dataweaver wrote: >This is strictly hypothetical, and I'm not at all sure that it would be >either practical or desirable to implement, but I'm thinking along the >lines of a new element, intended strictly for use in the header, with the >sole purpose of specifying relationships among various classes in the >document (I do _not_ like this approach, but I can't think of a better one >right now; if anyone else can, I'm all ears...). Something along the >lines of: > ><RELATION class="date" parent="datetime"> ><RELATION class="time" parent="datetime"> > >At that point, anything that acts on elements with the "datetime" class >would also act on elements with either the "date" class or the "time" >class, or both, while anything that acts specifically on elements with the >"date" class would have no effect on elements with the "datetime" class or >the "time" class (assuming that they also don't have the "date" class, of >course...). Wouldn't normal HTML classes do the job? <SPAN CLASS=date>A date</SPAN> <SPAN CLASS=time>A time</SPAN> <SPAN CLASS="date time">A date and a time</SPAN> Remember that the CLASS attribute can take multiple classes. -- Liam Quinn Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/
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