- From: Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@jelks.nu>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 23:46:08 -0500
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
There is one HTML element in particular that jumps out as needing to be moved to Style -- BR. When you have something like ... <h1>The Old Man<br> and<br> the Sea</h1> ... the <br>s are there just to break the lines; they are for visual effect, not for sematic markup. Wouldn't it be better to have ... <h1>The Old Man and the Sea</h1> ... with something like the following applied to it ... h1 break-after: words(3,4); text-align: center; /* etc. */ } ... where "words" could take a single value or a list? Maybe even have "letters(...)" as well as "words(...)"? Isn't <BR> part of the legacy of presentational HTML? How would one express the equivalent of <BR> in XML? I really haven't thought much about the syntax, but I do think there is a need to somehow express this in CSS. As a precedent, we do have "page-break-before", etc. for paged media. Just a thought... /Jelks
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