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Started by namingway Jun 6, 2006 at 4:02 AM 1 replies 1k views

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Jun 6, 2006 at 4:02 AM

I don't quite understand what the following do; Computer code Keyboard input Teletype text Sample text Computer variable I'm guessing there self explanitory but I still don't get how they can be used.

igni ferroque

Jun 6, 2006 at 9:51 AM

They indicate that the text enclosed in them represents computer code, keyboard input, teletype text, sample text, or a variable (respectively). Many computer books will use different typographical styles for those types of text, and they'll tell you about them towards the beginning. They exist in HTML to preserve semantics for screenreaders and other software (that wouldn't know that something enclosed in is a code example), and so that those types of text have consistent styling (which you can specify with CSS).

khsoh

Jun 6, 2006 at 6:41 PM

Adding to Igni's response, see http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#h-9.2.1 for details.

For example, you can have a CSS style such as ...

kbd { background-color: silver; border-style: outset; }

... so that each element is displayed looking like a keyboard button.

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