Another dumb question.

[kamanza]

As I'm learning to make ebooks, I come up with some questions, that even to me look dumb. Still, i need answers.
So here is the latest one:
What is the practical difference between:

<span class="italic">whatever</span>

and

<i>whatever</i>

As always, help is much appreciated.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by kamanza

As I'm learning to make ebooks, I come up with some questions, that even to me look dumb. Still, i need answers.
So here is the latest one:
What is the practical difference between:

<span class="italic">whatever</span>

and

<i>whatever</i>

As always, help is much appreciated.

New (and uses the stylesheet, that just happened to name its selector for the font-face) way.

Old way HTML.
Want to change every Italic word to Bold-Italic , you need to change Each and every use of <i>

With the Stylesheet 1 change
font-face: italic; simply add the line font-weight: bold;

[kamanza]

I see now. Thanks a lot.

[mrmikel]

You might want to check out http://www.w3schools.com. It goes into detail on span and style and the various tags. I don't think you can use class after span. I most commonly use class as part of a paragraph tag...<p class="fn"> for footnotes, for example. That way all the footnotes are the same and can be changed once in the stylesheet.

[meme]

You can definitely use a class attribute in a span tag.

It can be difficult to switch from thinking about applying a font style directly to text (e.g. <i>) and instead think about why you are using the style on that piece of text - i.e. why are you making it Italic. For instance its usually not just italic because you felt like it, it may be Italic because its the name of a book. In which case instead of using <i> you can use the <span class="bookname">My Book</span> syntax, along with a stylesheet that defines class bookname as italic, e.g. span.bookname { font-style: italic }

Then as theducks said, when you decide you want your book names in bold italic or pink, you just change the style definition instead of every bookname entry - and you can tell you bookname italics separate from your quote italics, etc.

[mrmikel]

Got span and style confused! class does work in span!