h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hello! I'd like to update my entry on Cascading Style Sheets (A729885). d'Elephant pointed out an error in it a while back but I'd been away from the Guide until recently.

The section I'd like to change is currently called "Creating Your Own Tags". I would like to replace that section with this:

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Using classes to save time

Say, for example, you are creating a book list so you know that you will be including many book titles in the page. You want the titles to stand out by being a different color, italic, and capitalised. Rather than having to say -

<SPAN STYLE="color: #0000CC; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; text-variant: italic; text-transform: capitalize;" > title of book </SPAN>

...for every book title, which would be quite tedious, you can define a book title style:

.booktitle
{color: #0000CC;
font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;
font-variant: italic;
text-transform: capitalize;}

The period means that this is a class, not an official HTML tag. From now on, whenever you wanted to designate a book title, all you have to write is:

<SPAN class="booktitle">title of book</SPAN>

Definitely preferable, no?

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I've tried to set it up so that it can just be copied and pasted as GuideML; no formatting should be necessary. If there's any problems with it, let me know.

Thanks!