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Solved: change text color on the fly -- deprecated font tag

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  1. andynic

    andynic Thread Starter

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    Hi,

    Formerly, I would change text color on the fly in a simple though clumsy way like this and it passed W3 validation:
    Code:
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Uitgeverij Tobi Vroegh</title>
</head>
<body >
<p>this is in  black; <font style="color:red">and this is in red; </font><font style="color:black"> and back to black."</font></p>
</body>
</html>
    Now if I change the DOCTYPE so that it is HTLM5, namely: <!DOCTYPE HTML>
    W3 validation gives me this error: The font element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

    Is there an easy way to have different colors within the same paragraph or line as in the example above?
    Thanks for your help.
    Andynic
     
    andynic, Apr 11, 2015
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  2. colinsp

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    colinsp, Apr 11, 2015
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  3. JiminSA

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    Hi Andy, you could do it via your style sheet css ...
    Code:
    .red
{
color:red;
}
    ... and your html changed to ...
    Code:
    <p>this is in  black; <span class="red">and this is in red; </span> and back to black.</p>
    (I'm assuming that your default paragraph styling is black.)
    Woops:eek: Colin answered just ahead of me - so you have a choice of solution;)
     
    JiminSA, Apr 11, 2015
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  4. andynic

    andynic Thread Starter

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    Thanks for the replies which solved the problem
    Andynic
     
    andynic, Apr 12, 2015
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