Re: Prefomated Text

by Matthew Ohlman <matthew(at)ohlman.com>

Date:	Mon, 08 Jul 2002 15:52:10 -0500
To:	Andrew McFarland <aamcf(at)aamcf.co.uk>
Cc:	HWG-basics(at)hwg.org
References:	ohlman
	todo: View Thread, Original

OK. Another problem. I used CSS (like Andrew said below), but when I use 
the CSS validator on W3C, it says this:

Line : 39 font-family: You are encouraged to offer a generic family as a 
last alternative

what does this mean? I have the code letter for letter as below (except the 
size), and I can't figure out what is wrong!

Here is the code I have:

>pre {
>         font-family: arial, san-serif;
>         font-size: 100%
>}

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Matthew


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At 10:39 AM 7/7/02 +0100, you 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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