PHP vs CSS

Fritz

although I know little about the power of using CSS for formating pages...

I was curious as to why I couldn't just use PHP to establish my font tags and table defaults...

Example

<?php

$redtitlebold = "<b><font color=#770000>";
$fcb = "</font></b>";  

?>

Why would i want to use CSS instead?

hi-liter

with css you can do more than set the font, font-color and style such as bold or italic.

text-decoration
background-image
background-repeat
padding, borders, letter spacing, line spacing and on and on and on.

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

and it works well and is fairly easy.

can also position items with layers etc.

one thing to consider too, is if anyone other than you is ever going to work on your pages, it'd make more sense to most, i'd think, using css. less laborious possibly as well.

just my 2¢

superwormy

Well first off... comparing CSS to PHP is like apples to oranges... so lets just think for a moment and decide to compare <font> tags vs. CSS instead, cause that makes more sense.

CSS is FAR LESS LABORIOUS than individual <font> tags

With CSS, people can specify their own stylesheets

With CSS, you can have multiple stylesheets for diff. browsers

With CSS, you can change the entire look of a site by just changing the stylesheet, no need to edit code at all.

And the big and important one...

<font> tags have been deprecated in the X/HTML spec and ( not sure on this ) possibly in HTML 4.0 too, so DON'T USE THEM, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO!

Future browser versions more than likely won't support <font> tags AT ALL, and will require CSS.

planetsim

heh, no ive seen all the PHP VS ??

laserlight

PHP vs PHP?

Or perhaps even
PHP4.3.2 vs PHP4.3.2 ?

dalecosp

Oh, yes, hi-liter; absolute positioning!!! I may have to go back and recode every page I've ever done .... but I doubt it. Wish I could, though...

LOL, planetsim, laserlight ... of course, we have done "my PHP vs. your PHP" a couple of times, IIRC.... 😃

laserlight

oh yeah.

PHP coders must be crazy 😃