- From: Carl Johan Berglund <f92-cbe@nada.kth.se>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 13:58:42 +0200
- To: Bert Bos <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Bert Bos wrote: > Whether or not <BR> has content is not important for CSS. <IMG> > doesn't have content either. Neither does the sequence > `<EM></EM>'. For CSS an element is just an element; it has a name, > optionally an ID, zero or more attributes, and zero or more characters > of content. (In other words: CSS deals with the abstract document > tree, not with the incidental markup.) Thank's for correcting me. > Here are two alternative ways of expressing the layout of the same > poem. This time using the STYLE attribute only, to keep the > information local. Which is preferred depends on one's taste: > > <p>in Just-<br> > spring<br style="display:inline;width:7em">when the world is mud-<br> > luscious the little<br> > lame baloonman > > <p>whistles<br style="display:inline;width:5em">far<br > style="display:inline;width:5em">and wee Doesn't this example prove that <br> with proper style attributes can be a complete replacement of <spacer>? That's what I'd like to hear! Cajo. -- Carl Johan Berglund <f92-cbe@nada.kth.se> http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~f92-cbe/
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