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From: Rachel
Date: Mon, May 05 2003 12:32PM
Subject: HTML structural markup for notes
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We're working a site where some of the paragraphs on
the pages are "notes." We are currently planning on
wrapping the notes with a class that's defined in an
external style sheet. The class will make the text
smaller than the regular body text.

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.

There are tags that define headings (H1-H6).
"Blockquote" denotes a quotation. "Address" denotes an
address or contact information. These are some
examples of HTML tags that define document structure.
Is there a tag that we could use for notes?

The doctype we are using is HTML 4.01 Transitional.

Thanks, as always, for your help,
Rachel Sengers

From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Mon, May 05 2003 1:13PM
Subject: Re: HTML structural markup for notes
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On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 12:27 PM, Rachel wrote:
> 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.
>
> There are tags that define headings (H1-H6).
> "Blockquote" denotes a quotation. "Address" denotes an
> address or contact information. These are some
> examples of HTML tags that define document structure.
> Is there a tag that we could use for notes?

Nope, there's not. This is one of the many weaknesses of HTML/XHTML
as a document format.

Add (in text) the phrase "Note:" before anything you want to be
identified
as a note. It might even be a good idea to make up a visual icon for
each
note (as in most computer books) and then give that appropriate ALT
text.

--Kynn

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