Solved: New Webpage, New Look --- HELP! - Page 2

erick295 · 17-Jun-2005, 11:55 PM **#16**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gibble

You really shouldn't use tables to layout a site, tables are for data...

I'd have to disagree with you there... before CSS was common, tables were the #1 way to create layouts.

namenotfound · 18-Jun-2005, 08:41 AM **#17**

Quote:

Originally Posted by erick295

I'd have to disagree with you there... before CSS was common, tables were the #1 way to create layouts.

CSS was created to solve a problem. Part of the problem was using tables for layout.
Do you want to be part of the problem, or part of the solution?

CSS was around since HTML 4.01
HTML 4.01 was created for the sole purpose of having CSS.

The reason "tables were the #1 blah blah blah" is because CSS wasn't invented yet. In HTML 3.2 and below, there was no CSS, so people had to use tables.
Not of choice, but because there was nothing else.

People are afraid of change (eventhough CSS has been around for a while), so that's why some people still use tables for layout. Because they are too scared to switch to a CSS layout.

§onic €hao · 18-Jun-2005, 08:53 AM **#18**

It is my site, so I can use both. But, I have to say that CSS is a little better. I need a CSS tag, one to highlight words. Can you tell me one 2 do so?

namenotfound · 18-Jun-2005, 09:51 AM **#19**

Quote:

Originally Posted by §onic €hao

It is my site, so I can use both. But, I have to say that CSS is a little better. I need a CSS tag, one to highlight words. Can you tell me one 2 do so?

In your CSS file, put something like this.

.highlight {
background-color: yellow;
color: black;
}

Then in your HTML pages, where ever you want a word highlighted, just do this.

<span class="highlight">Text to be highlighted</span>

You can change the colors as desired.

§onic €hao · 11:32 AM

I know that much, that is not the problem. When I do that, it goes ACROSS the whole page (as a strip) I just want that ONE WORD higlighted. This is what I see:

I want the word highlighted, and not the whole thing. I used "TESTCODE" as a test to show you what happens. I am making this page to show someone how to use CSS. The code of that is:

<html>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<body>
<div class="header">Cascading Style Sheets</div>
<div class="fineprint">All CSS noted is Firefox and M$IE compatible.</div>
<div class="codeexample">TESTCODE</div>
</body>
</html>

namenotfound · 18-Jun-2005, 11:47 AM **#21**

<div> tags stretch accross the whole page.

Change
<div class="codeexample">TESTCODE</div>
to
<span class="codeexample">TESTCODE</span>

§onic €hao · 18-Jun-2005, 11:52 AM **#22**

Thanks! ^_^ I never knew that. I will use <span> for these problems from now on. ^^

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