Re: Formatting of html tags

Your example is unrelated...
My suggestion was only referring to the element name mention situation.
Inline code is unrelated here and of course should have actual angle
brackets.


☆*PhistucK*


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Pearl Chen <pearlchen@google.com> wrote:

> Regarding copy and paste of the angled brackets, I would want the brackets
> copied too, especially if the inline code represented something more than
> just the tag name. Example:
>
> Display: "An element can be styled using using the *style* attribute
> (e.g. *<div style="padding: 1em;"></div>*) or via CSS selectors."
>
> Wiki input:  "An element can be styled using using the <code>style</code>
> attribute (e.g. <code>&lt;div style="padding: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&lt;</code>)
> or via CSS selectors."
>
> A blanket statement saying that all inline code should be wrapped in
> <code></code> seems sufficient to me.
>
> A contributor really shouldn't have to think so hard, or know so many
> rules about their writing situation, in order to contribute.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Pearl Chen <pearlchen@google.com> wrote:
>
>> I've never used <tt> before and when I looked it up, MDN says
>> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/tt> <tt> is
>> obsolete and shouldn't be used anymore.
>>
>> For most developers and content writers, <code> would be more apparent,
>> imo.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Renoir Boulanger <renoir@w3.org> wrote:
>>
>>> hi all,
>>>
>>> Personally, what I do is one of three things:
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. Inline mention
>>>
>>> When I have to use a tag name in full, I use <tt>&lt;tag-name&gt;</tt>.
>>> Not pretty, but not too long to write.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2. In page code sample
>>>
>>> I use the <syntaxHighlight> extension which takes care of hilighting [0]
>>>
>>> <syntaxHighlight lang="html5">
>>>   <!DOCTYPE html>
>>>   ...
>>> <syntaxHighlight>
>>>
>>> The syntaxHighlight escapes for us the tags, supports html and all that
>>> jazz.
>>>
>>> And, it works pretty well [1]
>>>
>>>
>>> 3. Create a code sample in Dabblet
>>>
>>> see code.webplatform.org
>>>
>>>
>>>   [0]:
>>>
>>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi#Supported_languages
>>>   [1]:
>>>
>>> http://docs.webplatform.org/w/index.php?title=Beginners/html&action=formedit
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Renoir Boulanger  |  Developer operations engineer
>>> W3C  |  Web Platform Project
>>>
>>> http://w3.org/people/#renoirbhttps://renoirboulanger.com/  ✪
>>>  @renoirb
>>> ~
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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