what is the XHTML equivalent of <font>?

[Jake Bunce]

n/t

[daemon]

There is no <font> tag, but rather a tag called <span>.

To style it, you use <span style=""> (it take the same elements as standard CSS).

So, just stick CSS styling elements in and you'll get the equivalent.

Here are the two CSS models (W3C standards):

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS1

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/

[diades]

As daemon stated, the <font> tag has been deprecated. The replacement is using css font or the constituent attributes of it such as font-family These, in xhtml, can be used on pretty-well any element's style.

[CeleronXT]

To expand on that and make it simple without having to read any lengthy W3 pages, if you want to do inline (even though inline isn't really that great) font styling, you can simply do this:

<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; size: 12px; color: #000000;">Stuff</span>

You can, of course, leave out any of the attributes you don't need, like color/size.

<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; size: 12px;">Stuff</span>
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000">Stuff</span>
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Stuff</span>

[Shining Arcanine]

Don't use font tags, use css classes.

[Jake Bunce]

CSS classes don't stand alone. You need some kind of tag to use the CSS class. That was what my question was about.

In my case I am creating custom titles for my vB3 groups and I want to know what tag I should use in the custom title field besides font. There is no reason for me to use classes for my titles since each title is the only instance of that particular style.

[the Sandman]

Here's what we're using for our Admin Titles - it works fine, but is it considered "correct"?

<span style="color:darkblue" title="Administrator"><i><b>Username</b></i></span>

[Stadler]

Well, you 'can' use the font-tag in XHTML, except in XHTML-strict. It's not forbidden there, but using <span ... + CSS-fomatting is the better choice anyway.

[diades]

CSS classes don't stand alone. You need some kind of tag to use the CSS class. That was what my question was about.

Hi jake
Not, strictly. You can have:

    <style type="text/css">
    /*<![CDATA[*/
      /* This class will be available to whichever tag that you 
         wish to declare the class attribute for*/
      .clsRed{color:#ff0000; background-color:transparent}
      /* This class will be available to tags fo type span only that you
         wish to declare the class attribute for*/
      span.clsBlue{color:#0000ff; background-color:transparent}
    /*]]>*/ 
    </style>

So, to some extent, you can have an "open" class and use it wherever you wish.

Sandman:

<span style="color:darkblue" title="Administrator"><i><b>Username</b></i></span>

would be better written:
<span style="color:darkblue;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold;" title="Administrator">Username</span>

even better, of course, as a class:

    <style type="text/css">
    /*<![CDATA[*/
      .admin{color:darkblue;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold;}
    /*]]>*/ 
    </style>
....
<span class="admin" title="Administrator">Username</span>

hth