- From: Chris Maden <crism@oreilly.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:03:29 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
[Michael Hamm] > On 20 Sep 1998 at 16:01:05 -0700, Susan Lesch <lesch@macvirus.com> > wrote, in part, that Lang "is the attribute for Language Codes in > HTML 4.0 and can be used with" many elements. > > I thank you, but that's not quite what I wanted. I wanted a tag that > itself would specify language change, so that the browser developers > can then decide to underscore or boldface or italicize or do nothing > to the text within the tag. (This is as distinct from <i > lang="bl">blah</i>, which specifies italics.) The lang attribute is the way to attach language information to an element. The span element is the way to attach attributes to a section of text without attaching any other meaning. And comp.infosystems.www.html.authoring is the proper place to ask HTML how-to questions. (-: (www-html is for discussion of the specification itself, and where it should be going.) -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek>
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