Hey just got back into web designing, and i have a silly question:
What's a tag that doesn't effect the text at all, but can, say group some text so you can use a style sheet and perhaps turn it blue or make it larger.

Example:

<h1>Big Title</h1>
I want the word "Title" to be turned blue while "Big" is black. I don't want to use html or anything for this, i prefer having no formatting in my html documents.
Thanks, sry if its a really obvious question.

I think h1:firstword will work but I'm not 100% sure....

just looked it up that's not an option

Here's a good resource on CSS 1 & 2 properties and selectors are the two sections I use most

http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/index.html

could be done with the <font> tag

You will have to format the word "Title" in a <span> tag then add some CSS to make it blue:

Using inline CSS...

<h1>Big <span style="color: blue">title</span></h1>

or using an external stylesheet

<h1>Big <span class="blue">title</span></h1>

.. then add the following to your CSS

.blue {color: #0000FF;}

<font color="#FF0000">Text</font

Is what I would use.

Either the <font> or styling the <span> will work. I'd opt for the <span> with the css styling though since the <font> tag has been deprecated in later versions of html.

The way I would set it up is to give either a class or an id to the span and then style the class or id in an external stylesheet. Assuming you already have the default color for the <h1> to be black:

<h1>Big <span class="blue">Title</span></h1>

and in the css:

.blue {color#00f}

Using classes will allow you to easily give other elements a blue text color on the page or site and ultimitaley save you a lot of code and typing.

Originally Posted by vangogh

the <font> tag has been deprecated in later versions of html.

I didn't know that, I would go with what vangogh and blue-dreamer said.

Yeah it was deprecated in html 4.01. It will still work as browsers are going to be handling deprecated tags for quite some time to come, but the way (x)html is evolving presentation tags and attributes are going to continue to be deprecated from the language and presentation will be handled by css instead.

thanks, <span> is what i was looking for, i forgot the name but couldnt find it newhere

Here's a good HTML reference if you're ever looking for a tag again.

Just another voter here for the span tag. Re-writing font tags due to deprecation can get tedious.