I would like to change the colors on consecutive letters of a word.
When adding a style associated with the span tag (see below), there is
a gap after each letter. Does anyone know why the span tag does this?
Is there a better way (or better tag) to accomplish what I'm trying to
do?
Thanks much!
- Jim
<html>
<body>
Here is some text.
<span style="color: fuchsia; background: white">H</span>
<span style="color: white; background: fuchsia">e</span>
<span style="color: fuchsia; background: white">l</span>
<span style="color: white; background: fuchsia">l</span>
<span style="color: fuchsia; background: white">o</span>.
Here is some more text.
</body>
</html>
7  5280 
> The span tag doesn't do anything. What you have minus the spans is H
e
l
l
o.
Yep - just to clarify that though, although html ignores line breaks during
code, which may make you think you can have them anywhere, they do still
appear as a space in the text. Its a common problem for people with sites
that have images that need to match up exactly.
David
"David Walker" <wb*********@hotmail.com> wrote: Yep - just to clarify that though, although html ignores line
breaks during code, which may make you think you can have them
anywhere, they do still appear as a space in the text.
What makes you think HTML ignores line breaks?
In HTML, a line break is in most situations equivalent to a space.
In the given example, immediately after an end tag, they _should_ be
ignored (according to the SGML standard and HTML specifications), but
almost all browsers have always got this wrong.
--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html
In article <bf**********@wisteria.csv.warwick.ac.uk>,
"David Walker" <wb*********@hotmail.com> wrote: The span tag doesn't do anything. What you have minus the spans is
H
e
l
l
o.
Yep - just to clarify that though, although html ignores line breaks during
code, which may make you think you can have them anywhere, they do still
appear as a space in the text. Its a common problem for people with sites
that have images that need to match up exactly.
And often, when copying the text from a browser to another application,
the white space (tabs, spaces, double spaces, etc.) are copied with it.
This often creates effects unforseen by the author.
--
Kris kr*******@xs4all.netherlands (nl)
"We called him Tortoise because he taught us" said the Mock Turtle.
"David Walker" <wb*********@hotmail.com> wrote: What makes you think HTML ignores line breaks?
I didn't mean ignore completely, just ignore in the sense that if you put a
line break in the middle of a chunk of text, the text when renedered won't
have that line break. I did say they apear as a space when rendered.
Depends:
<pre>
Foobar
Foobar
Foobar
</pre>
Headless
In article <bg*********@wisteria.csv.warwick.ac.uk> in
comp.infosystems. www.authoring.html, David Walker
<wb*********@hotmail.com> wrote: I think it is clear from that that I said that it ignores the line breaks
(as a line break) in html, "but they appear as a space"!!!!
Apparently the point of my quote from Lewis Carroll was not clear:
Your original statement that line breaks are "ignored" was wrong.
When that was pointed out (not by me), you tried to redefine
"ignore" and create a distinction between your newly-redefined word
and "ignore completely".
Its like being back at school having my essays checked! Sheesh! :o/
The difference is that here on Usenet everyone _chooses_ to put his
or her work up for criticism. No one need do it who does not wish
to. When you or I or anyone makes a false statement instead of
being silent, we can hardly then turn around and complain that we
are being "checked".
A grownup would say (or at least think) "Thank you for the
correction. Now I know something I didn't know before." I think most
of the regulars have had occasion to do that on occasion: certainly
I have.
Anyway, if your work was being checked I'd have something to say
about your use of the third person neuter present indicative of the
verb "to be".
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/
HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
"David Walker" <wb*********@hotmail.com> wrote: I still stand by what I said:
"Yep - just to clarify that though, although html ignores line
breaks during code,
Well, if you insist, let us take a look at that exact statement.
It is patently false even in ways discussed yet. In _code_, i.e. in
tags, entity references, character references and (in theory) other
constructs that can reasonably be called HTML _code_, line breaks are
surely not ignored and in most cases not even equivalent to spaces.
Consider this:
<
title>Demo</tit
le>
&cop
y; Yucca
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