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# But surely it should all be in black with unicode representing the colour in that case.
THAT MAKES NO SENSE!
(, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 1:03, archived)
# I <FONT COLOR="#F00">&#10084;</FONT> UNICODE
 
yeah I know FONT is a deprecated tag these days
(, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 1:07, archived)
# I <span style="font-color:#f00;">&#10084;</span> UNICODE
I think. Ages since I wrote any html. Plus I think span is looked down on. In any case you'd normally create a class in the css and refer to the that with span.
(, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 1:10, archived)
# It's looking less and less likely that this would fit on a tee shirt :(
 
(, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 1:21, archived)
# yeah I don't use span either.
 
nor can I think of any typographic excuse for having one word in a sentence a different colour from the rest, unless it's highlighting a link which would have a plain old anchor tag on it the first place.
(, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 1:23, archived)
# What do you use instead of span? P? Div?
(, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 1:25, archived)
# P for paragraphs, DIV for blocks.
 
what I'm saying is I can't think why you'd want to piss about with the style of a single word in-line unless it's a link to something. : )

SPAN doesn't have a clear function in layout terms, it's just a generic container.
htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/special/span.html
(, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 1:36, archived)
# What about for stylish sexy design purposes?
Can't rule out those stylish sexy designs.
(, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 1:28, archived)
# Having words different colours is only a small step away from having letters different colours
which rapidly leads to clip art and comic sans

IT IS A SLIPPERY SLOPE I TELL YOU
(, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 1:32, archived)
#  
"But I HAVE to use the MARQUEE tag, how else will people understand just how important the text is?!"
(, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 1:41, archived)