Re: Ascii web page

Martin Atkins (zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz) wrote:
: Now I`m going to confuse everyone even more - it only seems to screw up the
: font when the <PRE> tags are inside <FONT> tags, as with some of the pages
: on my gallery (coming soon). It seems to work ok when there are no <FONT>
: tags tho'!

Well, in this respect MSIE is being entirely reasonable. *There is no way
<PRE> _inside_ <FONT> could be valid HTML.*

I'll repeat this once more: <FONT> (as well as <TT>) is a text-level tag.
It should be placed only within a block, such as <H1>, <P>, <PRE>, <LI>
or <BLOCKQUOTE>.

Instead of guessing, please read the standard and the WDG style guide.
You could start at http://www.htmlhelp.com/

Anyway, here's a quick list of different tag types. (far from complete)

Text-level (embedded in text)
  Closed (may only contain text and text-level tags)
    <EM>, <STRONG>, <CITE>, <CODE>, <VAR>, <DFN>, <Q>, <B>, <I>, <U>,
    <BLINK>, <BIG>, <SMALL>, <SUB>, <SUP>, <TT>, <FONT>, <SPAN>, <A>
  Unclosed
    <IMG>, <INPUT>, <BR>
Block-level (define a block ie. paragraph of text, group of tags etc.)
  Pure text (may only contain text, no tags whatsoever)
    <TEXTAREA>, <CAPTION>
  Textual (may only contain text and text-level tags)
    <H1> - <H7>, <P> (closing tag may be omitted), <PRE>, <ADDRESS>,
    <BLOCKQUOTE>, <DT>
  Structural (define a group of tags, may not contain plain text)
    <UL>, <OL>, <DL>, <TABLE>, <TR>
  Mixed-content (may contain text or block-level tags)
    <BODY>, <DIV>, <LI>, <DD>, <TH>, <TD>, <CENTER>, <FORM>
  Unclosed
    <HR>, <COL>, <COLGROUP>

[Note: there's a lot to be said about unclosed, pure text and other
unusual tags.. this is just a simple example.]

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