Sent by Michael Landis on 2 December 2003 18:06
David wrote:
> could someone give me a quick lowdown on how to use (or why to use)
> CSS with the HTML tags paragrapgh, h1, h2 etc
Hi, David,
It really depends on what you want to do with them. Many CSS-presented
sites use the individual tags in relationship to their context -- for
example, a list inside of the content area of a page may need to look like
a list, while a list in the navigation area may look like a drop-down menu.
Unless a tag is only used in one specific circumstance -- for example, if
H1 is only ever used for the page title -- then the tag is typically
associated with another selector, such as
#content p {
normal formatting for a paragraph
}
#sidebar p {
a paragraph formatted as a blurb in a sidebar (perhaps smaller text?)
}
This lets you have relatively clean HTML:
<div id="content">
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
</div>
<div id="sidebar">
<p>This is a blurb.</p>
</div>
The alternative to something like this is to apply specific classes to each
paragraph, but this can get messy, since every paragraph would have to have
a class applied to it.
For more on this subject, take a look at the Wiki page
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ClassesVsIds and the references at the
bottom of that page.
HTH,
MikeL
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