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RE: HTML structural markup for notes

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From: julian.rickards
Date: May 5, 2003 12:53PM

Rachel wrote:

<snip>
> If someone accesses this page without our style sheet,
> the notes text will appear just like normal
> paragraphs.
>
> I'm wondering if there is a HTML element out there,
> that has a similar meaning to notes, that we could use
> to wrap our notes text in. So that site visitors will
> understand that they are notes, even without our style
> sheet.
</snip>

What about hiding text using styles which when styles are not supported, the
text will become available. For example,

<p class="notes"><span class="invisible">Notes: </span>Here is a paragraph
of notes.</p>

Where the class invisible is defined as:

.class {display: none}

Jules


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