Hello ,

i am trying to mastering css/xhtml 1.1 strict .. i am reading a e-book which is very good .. got it from www.dummies.com

The thing is that <font> tags are unsupported from xhtml , i have created a class known as car which will bring all the car sales in bold but xhtml validator said that i can't use <font> , 10 minutes google search told me to use <span> i used it and it nearly worked but the validator said to enclose it in tags such as h1,h2,h3 and etc.. so i did in <p> , as my <p> tag is classed in css as underline i dont want my listings to go underline so i grouped span class car with p.car... but it resulted as p.car underlined as well .. is there any way i can use p and as well p.car without making p.car underlined or any other alternative solutions ?

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umm... I think the validator is triying to make sense of the structure of your site... like.. don't use p tags for listings... you use the ul/ol/li tags for listings... and then you give design to those in the css.

Edit. you have to take heed that the strict tags are structural, if you "cheat" the use for the p tag (wich is only for paragraphs) you're missing the whole point of using strict xhtml.

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hell3 , thanks for a lot of information about it , it really helped me but maybe more thoughts by the xhtml experts as the structure of the file is alright.

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well then... if you insist to use p tags I would use a separate class for p.underline and p.cars and define in every instance wich one I'm using

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well hell3 seems like you have muhc knowledge about css/xhtml 1.1 strict..

the new questions is that in the e-book i am reading it says that some OS does not support fonts that windows uses and that way font-family supports to resolve that problem.. now the question is that can i load the fonts into my server and then link to the the css , like http://www.fonts.com/jokerfont.ttf..

will this work because this might resolve most of the OS compatbility issues.

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here's the thing, yes you can upload fonts to your server, the one you're linking wich is a ttf might only work on windows servers, but that's another story. The main thing is that when the user agent (the browser) loads the page, it will look for that font in the client machine, not in the server, and if it's not there the user agent will display the next font that appears in the family list, if there's one defined, if it doesn't find any font in the family list then will use the default serif or sans serif font defined in the user agent options.

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i see , but i might confirm from a css expert.

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I'm not an expert, but he is correct. Font being display is determined on the client-side, not the server-side..

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The use of font family lists is to give a solution for possible differences in font names depending the plataform the client uses.

Example. Windows machines name this font Arial, OSX ones name it Helvetica, what you do is to put both names in the family list to ensure that both windows and osx show the same font and not the default font defined in the user agent options

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Thanks hell3.

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