- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:24:50 -0800
- To: Karlsson Kent - keka <keka@im.se>, W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
At 8:10 PM +0100 1/20/00, Karlsson Kent - keka wrote:
> > I think the main differnce is illustrated as follow. Here
> > I'm comparing
> > <i> elments to <em> elements.
> >
> > <i> this is <i>nested italics</i></i>.
> > <em> this is <em>nested emphisis</em></em>.
> >
> > In the first case, clearly everything should be in italics.
> > In the second case, using <em>, the nested <em> data should
> > be rendered in
> > some other way, commonly a monospaced different font.
>
>TeX (for \em) toggles between italic and upright.
>How does one write a CSS style to get such toggling
>behaviour for <em>?
Contextual selectors, e.g.,:
em { font-style: italic }
em em { font-style: normal }
em em em { font-style: italic }
em em em em { font-style: normal }
/* and so on ad absurdam */
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Todd Fahrner
Received on Thursday, 20 January 2000 14:25:02 UTC