- From: Edward Z. Yang <edwardzyang@thewritingpot.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:36:53 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Smylers wrote: > Why would you need to -- surely you could just put the styling on the > <code> instead (using pre + code to select only <code> elements inside > <pre>-s)? Lets say I want to place a background image of a computer behind spanses of computer code, but a background image of a console for emulated console data using samp and kbd. With HTML 4, I would have done <pre class="code"> (or more likely, just omitted it and assumed it was computer code by default unless otherwise) and <pre class="console">. With <pre><code>, you can't do that. <code> is an inline element, and the background image doesn't get applied to it in any meaningful way. I suppose one of the primary distinctions is that if you use <pre><code>, it's usually because all of it's computer code. - -- Edward Z. Yang GnuPG: 0x869C48DA HTML Purifier <http://htmlpurifier.org> Anti-XSS Filter [[ 3FA8 E9A9 7385 B691 A6FC B3CB A933 BE7D 869C 48DA ]] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIXsX1qTO+fYacSNoRAgFhAKCFytkJ985PnqJDnDDQCfkUd4/EIwCeL9Mr gqBmVDkEAT12wpOARzogoNc= =XwlH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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