- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:15:50 +0100
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Robert Burns writes: > phrase extensions and bidirectional text orverride <span> and <bdo>) > part of my review of 3.12 Phrase elements > > Span SPAN: > > The <span> element makes mention of special meaning to @title when > used with <dfn> but nothing else is said about that here. An example > and explanation would be helpful. True, but the mention of "dfn" is a link to what the spec says about the <dfn> element, where it is explained. > Consider requiring at least one of the global attributes to ensure > <span> has some specified semantics associated with it. Why? There are things that can be done with a <span> that has no attributes, for example: * <span> can delimit a term which is defined elsewhere in the document (with a <dfn>). * Even without a class or id attribute, <span> can still be selected in CSS for special styling, for example with this HTML: <p class="fruit"><span>Apples</span>, <span>bananas</span>, and <span>cherries</span> are all fruit.</p> those <span> elements can be distinguished with something like: .fruit > span { color: lime; } without requiring the class to be applied to each <span> individually. Smylers
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