Wikipedia talk:Span tags

message: Why are "new" votes being seperated from old votes?  I don't see any change in content that requires people who have voted to yet again vote. - Tεxτurε 18:33, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's just to keep things tidy.  There's no reason to vote again unless you want to change your old vote.  --Eequor 18:38, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: "New" votes

message: Can someone explain to me just what SPAN is used for? Apart from things handled by wikitax like bold and italics. Thanks. --Golbez 00:21, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  is the correct way to change properties of text inline without dividing paragraphs, as  does.   can be used instead but that use is deprecated.  *as should be the excessive use of styles in this paragraph.  --Eequor 21:10, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Very pretty.  I realise that you used  and   rather than   because the latter does not work, but are you saying that it works the same, or that other different syntax is needed as well?  --Henrygb 00:05, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: For us standards buffs, the  tag is generally preferable for inline styles because the  tag is considered outdated (although it can be used in the same way). --neatnate 00:23, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: What does Span do

message: When setting up poll pages like this in the future, I suggest keeping all headings unique. To this end, I've "disambiguated" the various "Comment" headings. Why? After submitting comments to the page I would always be kicked back to the first "Comment" section rather than the one I was just editing. Very annoying. In addition, I think the "Yes" & "No" (and perhaps "May" & "August") headings should be disambiguated, as well. For example: "Yes to  tags", "No to  tags", etc. I haven't made these latter changes because I didn't want to disrupt the page too much. Besides, there are so many repeated headings, disambiguating them all would make the TOC very wordy. We should probably just avoid placing so many polls on the same page... - dcljr 00:18, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggest unique headings 

message: I agree with nohat that "...for rarely-used options, like, say, labeling spans of foreign language text, or hieroglypics, or math, Wikipedians prefer an HTML-like syntax".
Just as we have HTML-like tags for  and so on, we should consider having a Wikipedia-specific HTML-like tag for language, <lang="en"> and so on. This would not be HTML: this would be Wiki-markup (just as much so as <math>), which is then rendered to produce appropriate HTML, XHTML, TeX, SGML, etc. etc.
Because it's a pseudo-tag, we could also remove any requirement for nesting, and so allow things like <lang="ar"> <lang="en">... 
There's also no need for a LTR/RTL tag: BiDi can be automatically inferred from language, and language tags convey more information than merely direction tags.
Oh, and let's move the en: Wikipedia to UTF-8 ASAP. The longer we wait, the more the pain. -- The Anome 09:20, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: What should the language be after <lang="ar"> ... <lang="en"> ... </lang>?  --Eequor 20:28, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another suggestion 

message: It seems overly contrived to provide an example with three  tags in one paragraph, especially as the latter two are unlikely to have any effect.  -_-;;  --Eequor 22:02, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Contrivance

message: : "...since MediaWiki now has a way to add to the global stylesheets in the wiki (at least for the main skins)"
How?  —Michael Z. 2005-01-29 07:15 Z
:MediaWiki:Monobook.css, MediaWiki:Standard.css and so on. A generic MediaWiki:Contentstyles that's included by all skins is something i plan to add, just didn't get around to do it yet. Math exams coming up, life will be more relaxed by end of February.. -- Gabriel Wicke 15:01, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding to style sheets 

message: It would be helpful if someone could add by all the html tags that are listed on the project page an explanation as to what each of them does? It would be helpful for those who are not familiar with html but are keen to use what we have available to us to improve Wikipedia. Thanks, jguk 07:48, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What do all the tags mean?