Re: CSS questions-favor asked

Hi Ted:

You asked:

> Just curious. What kind of mail program "reads" these tags and meaning no
>  disrespect here but could you tell me why you would use such a thing. I
>  assume it must do something special over --say--Outlook Express. 
>  Again--I'm not trying to find fault here, just curious ...

No problem...I'm currently using AOL.  

I had actually experienced the problem earlier when I tried to email an 
attached page of HTML code to a friend.  She said it couldn't be read - so I 
cut and pasted it into the body of my email message.  When it arrived at her 
end, the email message actually suffered the formatting that I pasted in.  
For example, where I had a <.B> tag, everything that followed became bold.  
And since I had indicated a body background color of yellow, the entire email 
had a background of yellow.

When I joined this list, I noticed that when a "." (period) was placed into 
the tag, AOL pretty much ignored it and it came through untouched.  I've been 
using this habit myself as you can see from above. It think it also helps 
when the code is placed between quote marks - although I can't be certain.

There have been times when entire batches of code have disappeared when I've 
tried to read mail from this list.  It's frustrating because trying to 
understand the problem code and coming up with the solution is a great way to 
learn! :-)

Yes- I know....quit AOL.  That's coming - but for now I hope this explains 
it.... :-)

- Jeff K.

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