- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 18:16:10 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
David Siegel wrote: > Actually, this is a really good question. Should such things be up to the > style sheet to decide how to present? I believe that the first paragraph in > a chapter or section (denoted by a heading) or recipe or play act, etc., > needs to have its own display rules. To me, this is structural, but maybe > it's really all presentation. I think that we all agree that * it is structural. After all the fact that it is first is a description of its structural location with respect to other objects. * any reasonable stylesheet language should support treating first paragraphs specially, even a language as simple as CSS. * there is no good reason to put redundant tags in HTML files labelling first paragraphs. Sometimes you may want to use DIV to make section starts explicit, but that's a good idea anyhow. Do we all agree, then, that HTML does not have to change, but CSS does? Paul Prescod
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