Approved HTML tags (Re: A meta Style question)

See perl monks approved html tags. But this filter is not applied to home nodes. Note that fixing some bugs will probably mean that a similar filter will eventually be applied to home nodes but with a larger list of allowed tags (or perhaps just a small list of disallowed tags).

And no, I seriously doubt <div> (or at least <div style="...">) will be added to the list of approved tags. Changing fonts and/or colors is already heavily frowned upon by many visitors here, so I don't see us offering new ways of doing that.

- tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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Re: Approved HTML tags (Re: A meta Style question) by Masem (Monsignor) on Feb 18, 2002 at 19:06 UTC
I agree on tye's last comment; font & color changes specified by the poster are rather unwanted by most users. In talking with those that are prepping for the massive improvements to CSS usage on the site, however, I would suggest that it's rather trivial to add new html-like tags that can be used by someone with their own CSS to markup pages in their own way. For example, `<spoiler>...</spoiler>` would be translated to `<div class="spoiler">...</div>` (or span, depending on body or character context), and the default style sheet could be set to make these black text on black bg, but still allow a user to change that with their own specified stylesheet. ----------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael K. Neylon - mneylon-pm@masemware.com \|\| "You've left the lens cap of your mind on again, Pinky" - The Brain "I can see my house from here!" It's not what you know, but knowing how to find it if you don't know that's important	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Approved HTML tags (Re: A meta Style question)
by Masem (Monsignor) on Feb 18, 2002 at 19:06 UTC

tye

For example, <spoiler>...</spoiler> would be translated to <div class="spoiler">...</div> (or span, depending on body or character context), and the default style sheet could be set to make these black text on black bg, but still allow a user to change that with their own specified stylesheet.

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