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By bhenick
Friday, 26. September 2008, 06:33:36
29: Text styling with CSS
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By scarby421
Wednesday, 1. October 2008, 10:39:16

Great!
Demonstration 1
Links-
Resized title, attributions, and bodycopy.
Link when pressed takes you to a NOT FOUND on this server.
Demonstration 11
New rules
p{line-height: 1.5;}
.attributions {line-height: 1.5;}
are they em's?
Thanks Don.
By chrismills
Wednesday, 1. October 2008, 14:25:17

Hi there Don - hope you are well!
Originally posted by scarby421:
Demonstration 1
Links-Resized title, attributions, and bodycopy.
Link when pressed takes you to a NOT FOUND on this server.
Oooops - this is a typo in the href attribute value - I've fixed it now, so the link should now work.
Originally posted by scarby421:
Demonstration 11
New rules
p{line-height: 1.5;}
.attributions {line-height: 1.5;}are they em's?
Nope - this is a unitless value. line-height is one of the cases where it can be a good idea to use values without units. Basically, it allows you to set the line-height as a ratio of the font-size, so in these cases, it is 1.5 times the font-size. It is especially useful to use unitless values of line-height on elements that are very likely to have descndents - you can set it once on the parent element to make all descendents have line-heights relative to their font-sizes.
Eric Meyer explains this in a bit more depth in his
Unitless line-heights article.
By scarby421
Sunday, 5. October 2008, 07:12:58

Thank's Chris, very interesting link to Unitless line-height. Keep well, Don.
Demo 11
Apply a suitable amount of leading to the passage : Takes you to a 404.
Post edited Sunday, 5. October 2008, 23:01:23
By chrismills
Tuesday, 7. October 2008, 16:14:42

Originally posted by scarby421:
Apply a suitable amount of leading to the passage : Takes you to a 404.
Thanks for the heads up Don - this was caused by a rogue period in the href value; I've fixed it now.
By davenvro
Tuesday, 14. October 2008, 02:25:27

hi, would like to ask about the "typography glossary" link under "font-style, font-variant, and font-weight: changing the details" section. when i clicked on the link, i am directed to the following url:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/supplementary-common-html-entities-used/please advise if this is the case or should I expect a different url for the said link.
thanks,
By chrismills
Tuesday, 14. October 2008, 11:21:00

Originally posted by davenvro:
please advise if this is the case or should I expect a different url for the said link.
Hi there - this is a mistake; that link should have been pointing to the WSC Glossary that explains both those two terms. I've fixed the link, and the surrounding text. Thanks for pointing this out!
By davenvro
Thursday, 16. October 2008, 07:18:52

thanks

By jillianwinn
Monday, 26. October 2009, 20:22:57

There are several spots in this article where html entity codes are used, but they are showing up in the text and not converting to the symbol. Here are a few examples:
1. in the first sentence is says: — some dynamic, some static, some functional —
2. Table 2 has several issues
3. in "in What is the physical equivalent of a desktop pixel?" it says: However…
(sorry, but when I submit the post, it does not show the entity codes as listed in the article since the post translates the entity codes to symbols)
By chrismills
Tuesday, 3. November 2009, 12:41:26

Originally posted by jillianwinn:
There are several spots in this article where html entity codes are used, but they are showing up in the text and not converting to the symbol. Here are a few examples:
Hrm, you are right - there are a lot of entity screwups going on here. I think I've got all of them - I replaced the HTML entities with unicode codes to make sure they display ok. Let me know if you spot any more - thanks!