Re: Prefomated Text

Hi everyone. Thanks so much! I was trying to use CSS, but not like that. 
Thanks again to everyone who responded!

Matthew



At 10:39 AM 7/7/02 +0100, Andrew McFarland wrote:
>At 20:49 06/07/02 -0500, Matthew Ohlman wrote:
>>Hi list. I myself am having a validation problem. If I understand the 
>>validator correctly, I can't use a font tag in a <.pre> tag.
>
>That is correct.
>
>http://aamcf.co.uk/html/ has reference material on all XHTML 1.0 elements, 
>showing which elements can contain what. It's produced automatically from 
>the DTDs and I find it is a useful reference.
>
>>So is there any way to control the text size and color within a pre tag? 
>>Or, is it better just to use the &nbsp; deal.
>
>Well, you shouldn't be using the font element any more. Use CSS. Rules like
>
>pre {
>         font-family: arial, san-serif;
>         font-size: 200%
>}
>
>should do what you want.
>
>Andrew
>
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>http://aamcf.co.uk/


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