- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 10:45:47 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
On 5/21/13 10:33 AM, Adrian Roselli wrote:
> Neither <strong>, <em>, nor <small> have grades -- they are all or nothing. Nesting *can* imply more (actually, can it?), but without additional styling doesn't amount to any presentation differences.
1) The recommended UA stylesheet for HTML5 contains:
b, strong { font-weight: bolder; }
Which means that if you have decent fonts in multiple bold weights,
something like this:
<strong>I am <strong>stronger</strong></strong>
will in fact have the "stronger" as bolder weight than "I am".
2) Nested emphasis, while not as well supported in HTML is commonly used
in print; typically what you will have is something like:
Some <em>very <em>emphasized</em> text</em>
Where the "very" and "text" are italic and the "emphasized" is not.
3) The recommended UA stylesheet for HTML5 contains:
small { font-size: smaller; }
so again nested <small> will in fact give you the "this is even smaller"
styling, up to a point.
-Boris
Received on Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:46:23 UTC