Valid HTML??? - not a PHP question

[ccgorman]

I am trying to validate some of my HTML and have come accross the <font> (&lt;font&gt😉 tag has depreciated and is not longer valid HTML.

My question is what am I suppose to use in its place. How do I make text red in the middle of a senctence, or make it slightly bigger. If I use a P tag it will start a new paragraph, the A tag really is for links, right? What am I to do to make "valid" HTML.

Thanks,
Chris

[laserlight]

use CSS.

e.g. with <span>

<span style="color: #FF0000;">red text</span>

[YappyDog]

Style sheets for most things, inline style for tweaking.

Inline style
An element can be given its own style by using the style syntax, eg:
<div style="position: absolute; left: 10px; top: 100px;">

[bad76]

Hi
you can use <span>.

<span> is bit less <p>. For example:
<span style="color:red">colored</span> font...

bye bye

[Weedpacket]

Or better yet

some <span class="alert">alerted</span> text

with a class

.alert {color:#ff0000}

in the stylesheet.

Otherwise you're kinda missing the point of CSS, which is to separate the HTML content from the styling it happens to be rendered in - and you might as well go back to using <font> tags. 🙂

After all, you might decide "no, I don't want alerts to be red, I want them BIGGER". With the stylesheet you have precisely one point that needs changing; with <span style="color:red"> you'll have to go through all the HTML that might contain the style and replace it - not forgetting to change <span style="color:#ff0000">, <span style="color:#f00">, <span="color:rgb(255,0,0)"> and so on, and not forgetting that you might not want to change some because they're red for some other reason.....

[drawmack]

The only thing I use inline style for is things in my header and footer that are static throughout the site, because that's still just one point of reference to change.

Other then that, everything with styles should be in the style sheet for the reasons that weedpacket mentioned as well as for redesigns.

I can generally do an entire site redesign just my changing the head and footer files and then reworking the style sheet. The size of the site itself has become irrelevent to the redesign.