How to apply CSS to text?

[may1hem]

At the moment, when I want to apply a style to the text of an article, I am using a <TABLE> tag or an <A> tag around some text and adding a CLASS=&quot;myArticleText&quot; parameter to the tag.

I know this is cheating as I don't really want a table or a link. I just want to define the font & colour for the main text of an article. How can i do this?

Should I use a <P> tag and apply a CLASS parameter to that? Or is there a better way?

Thanks,
May

 

[deecee]

<p> would be the best way to go
or <div>
but stick with <p>
but actually the text is already in a cell right -- why not give that cell a class with the text format the way you want it [Hammer]
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[GUJUm0deL]

Try the <div> tag instead...
Like this: One more gone <div class=&quot;something&quot;>and then there were none</div> thought mrs.tinkle
The only thing is that when the <div> applies it will force the text to be on a new line...so the above example would look like this:
One more gone
and then there were none
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[may1hem]

Woah, thanks for the quick replies!

The text shouldn't be in a cell but I am putting it there as a fix to make the CSS work.

I guess the <P> tag will also force a new line or paragraph. Is there no &quot;proper&quot; way to change the CSS in the same line? Hmmm...

I guess I could carry on using an <A> tag and applying the CSS to that.

Any other ideas?

Thx,
May

 

[Sheltered]

Hi May, you could use <span> tags.

i.e.
<span class=&quot;myArticleText&quot;>Blah Blah Blah</span>... testing testing. More writing etc. More writing etc. More writing etc. More writing etc. <span class=&quot;myArticleText&quot;>Blah Blah Blah</span>

Using <span> tags you can change the font color & size etc and it won't force a line break.

Hope thats what your after.

Pete

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

<p></p>

is a paragraph, so it's going to do what paragraphs do, which is to break and new-line. You can modify the class of the

<p>

tag such that there is any space you wish between paragraphs, but they'll still be paragraphs.

If you want to monkey with your text all inline (without breaking the paragraph), then using the

<span></span>

tag is probably going to be your solution, unless you want to use the

<font>

tag, which would just be evil.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,
Edward

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[may1hem]

Thanks guys!

Aren't there issues related to using <SPAN> tags? I thought I read something about that a few months ago.

May

 

[xutopia]

<span> Is indeed used to give style to a certain amount of text or items. It is a good idea to have <span style=&quot;CSS here&quot;> instead of using Div which are meant to provide boxed containers to put wherever we want on the screen. Gary

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Haran

 

[codeone]

This may sound dumb but why not just use the good ol' <font color=red>Hello</font><font color=blue>Code One</font>.

Maybe that would be better? I dont really understand what the heck you want to do, and why you want to use css to do that. Anyway there is my suggestion.

Hope it helps

Code One