Abhishek Reddy — Fri, 28 Jun 2002 07:32:11 +0000

Yes, and it also makes the code neater, because everything is in the one tag. You won't have problems with interchanging opening/closing tags and so on.

Eg:blah'That is easily avoided:blah'

The Webmistress — Fri, 28 Jun 2002 07:12:01 +0000

Plus without all the font tags etc on the page it will load quicker as well as being quicker to edit later.

Abhishek Reddy — Fri, 28 Jun 2002 07:03:30 +0000

Let's say that the only reason you use is to emphasise some text. How about if you decide to change the style of emphasis on (all X number of pages in) your site? Say, you want to highlight the text in red instead of strong. You could simply alter the central CSS code once.

This helps you keep a style guide for your site, which is very useful. Makes editing so much easier. You can even easily play around with different styles when designing pages because you only need to change the code once.

zollet — Fri, 28 Jun 2002 05:56:24 +0000

I never use CSS just to make a piece of thext bold. I guess if you want all 's to be bold, then the CSS method is handy since you can by changing one line in one file, change the look of all content between your tags. You can for example use td{} or body{} to format all text in your tag or your tables. It is very handy once you get a hang of it.