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What tag should I use instead of deprecated tag font in html (cannot use CSS)

Answer 1

+13 A:

You could replace

0001100000101101100011

with

0001100000101101100011

etc...

*Edit: I know this is CSS, but it doesn't involve a separate stylesheet like the question states, which may be ok.

Ryan Doherty 2008-12-11 08:05:16

Oops, I just posted exactly the same suggestion. I'll delete mine, but I agree with Ryan: this solution doesn't employ a stylesheet. Note, though, that it does bulk up the page by a certain amount.

dland 2008-12-11 09:16:17

Answer 2

+2 A:

What about javascript ?

Send the color data as a JSON array, the '0' and '1' as another array and dynamically generate the DOM elements.

<script>
values = [1, 0, 0, 1, ... ]
colors = ["010000", "020101", ...]

for (i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
    span = createElement("span"); // use a portable function for creating elements
    span.setAttribute("style", "color:#"+colors[i]);
    txtNode = document.createTextNode(values[i]); 
    span.appendChild(txtNode);
    document.appendChild(span);
}
</script>

Or something like this...

BraveSirFoobar 2008-12-11 08:43:08

Answer 3

+1 A:

Thanks a lot! :D I used this code

<!-- IMAGE BEGINS HERE -->
<div style="font-size:x-small;font-family:monospace">
    <span style="color:#000000">0001100000101101100011</span>
    <span style="color:#010000">00</span>
    ...etc.etc...
</div>
<!-- IMAGE ENDS HERE -->

It works correctly! :D

Francesco 2008-12-11 09:22:30

Answer 4

+1 A:

Why does it need to validate?

The solution you've already got is absolutely fine for what you're doing. It works. This is not a meaningful document that should be marked up with semantic tags for improved accessibility; it's a work of art, so feel free to ignore the rules if it helps you express your intentions more clearly.

If validation is part of the artistic statement you're trying to make, then use 00 as suggested by other posters - but that'll increase your file size considerably.

Another approach is just to change the doctype so you're not targetting XHTML Transitional - use <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> or some earlier HTML revision instead.

Dylan Beattie 2008-12-11 09:22:39

Thanks for posting. I agree with you about not following the rules in some cases, but I'm trying to make it the more close I can to the standard XHtml, and the file size is not so important for that page; moreover in this case I got the same result :)

Francesco 2008-12-11 09:38:05

Have to say I disagree. It's fairly universally accepted that HTML is difficult to support universally as a result of a lack of standard implementations. XHTML is intended to alleviate this, and we should all be striving to meet the new standard and wipe out the pain of original HTML.

Neil Barnwell 2008-12-11 10:04:02

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