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Using <style></style> in Netscape 4x through current 2

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Sam6284

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What does Netscape want/expect

An overly simplified illustration of what I'm doing:

<head>
<style>
.Text { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10px; }
</style>
</head>

I specify the style using the class attribute:

<table>
<tr>
<td class=&quot;Text&quot;>My Text</td>
</tr>
</table>

This technique renders as desired in IE, but not Netscape. Is there a technique that works in BOTH IE and Netscape?

If it's not apparent, I'm new to this.

Many thanks.
 
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what version on netscape are you running, just on the off chance, try changing the class Name from Text to something else
 
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Version tested was Netscape 6, but I'll need it to work under Netscape 4 as well as IE 4x through current.

I sent a watered down example. In practice, class names include &quot;SmTxt&quot;, &quot;LgTxt&quot;, &quot;BoldHeadings&quot; ... maybe a dozen altogether.

I'm new to HTML, but not coding in general. I avoid the use of reserved words as well as words that may be objects, classes, etc.
 
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rather than apply the class to the td tag put a font tag inside it and apply the class to that...

<td><font class=Text>My Text</font></td>
 
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This is how I do it:
1) Instead of doing this:
.Text {font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10px;}
do this:
td, th {font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;, &quot;Verdana&quot;, &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10px;}

2) And it gets called just by the <tr><td> tags... I have not failed; I merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...
 
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I've not tried either yet, but both approaches look good to me. Thanks.

I can see the td, th { parameters } method being an excellent approach on a simple table. Thanks for the great tip. Unfortunately, I'm working on a complex online loan application.

The <font> method will work better in this particular instance. I've got a question on it, though, because I'm still learning.

My documentation states: &quot;Use of this element (<font>) is not encouraged, as it is not part of the HTML 4.01 strict specification.&quot;

I've gone way out of my way to avoid using the <font> tag because of that statement.

Could someone translate into plain English how I should interpret &quot;not encouraged&quot; in terms of W3C standards? Is it safe to assume it will be around for the forseeable future?

 
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In simple terms: Forget about it...
LOL, i'm not sure why the W3C would say, and to me it makes no sense, if you want to use the <font> tags then do it...it will not cause any problems in the browsers and I assure you, the folks from W3C will not come knocking at your door for breaking a law...lol...
I use <font> when I need to do, but I realized that the <td><th> CSS style is easier to use...
Go here: (someone posted this link here at tek-tips in the HTML/CSS forum), its clean and nice tutorial...might wanna give them a star if it helps ya...[smile] I have not failed; I merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...
 
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If you dont feel like you want to use the font tag not to worry, there are other tags such as SPAN and P tags that you could use but as GUJUm0deL says, this is one warning from the W3C that can be taken lighly
 
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I finally had a chance to complete the testing. Both methods worked precisely as expected in the four browser versions I tested: Netscape 4.3 and 6.2, and IE 5x and 6x.

Thanks very much for your help. Maybe I'll have an opportunity to return the favor some day.
 
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