Markdown-Discuss Digest, Vol 26, Issue 22

["Choan C. Gálvez"]

Michel Fortin wrote:

> Le 2005-12-01 à 03:14, Jonathan Barrett a écrit :

> 

>> I used to think like this too, but HTML is all about semantics. Your 

>> <cite>book titles</cite> can be italicised by appropriately styling 

>> semantic tags, and you can use <span class="non-english">faux</span> 

>> tags to mark up other things.

> 

> You could also write `<i class="non-english">faux</i>` which has the 

> same lack of semantic value as span but will display as italic when CSS 

> rules are discarded.


Or write `<i lang="es" xml:lang="es">¡demonios!</i>`which _has_ semantic 
value and will display as italic when CSS rules are discarded.

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Choan