
Relative sizing means the text will resize relatively to the user’s default size. The majority of sites will have their text set at around size 2 or 3. Most browsers have their default font size set as 3. Absolute sizes are between the range 1 and 7, and are set like this: You have two options when setting your text’s size: sizing it absolutely or relatively. Since you won’t be using it, of course, you should read this purely out of interest. The rest of this page is just a description of how the tag used to work. Read the introduction to stylesheets, and then CSS and text and you’ll never look back. If you have yet to tackle stylesheets at all, don’t be afraid - they’re really not all that hard to get to grips with. Moreover, it’s just not necessary.ĬSS on the other hand, gives you far more control over how your text looks, and adds almost nothing to your download times. It is highly restrictive and can add multiple kilobytes to the filesizes of every one of your HTML files.

To this end, I strongly discourage you from using the tag at all in your HTML. Somewhat tragically, there has been little decline in tag usage since then, so many years ago.

This means that it should not be used anymore, since we have the vastly superior stylesheets at our disposal to format the text in our HTML pages. It's like those people that like VI, why would anyone use VI? It's the worst thing I've ever used! The only reason it still exists is so people that have used Unix since 1980 can go "I use VI".Ever since HTML 4.01 came out in 1998, the tag has been deprecated. I'd be interested in a real reason or concrete feature. not just "because it's for linux" or something stupid like that. People love to rave about gedit (I've tried and hated the windows version) but I'd like to know why. The only things that I would want to add would be a better Intellisense and an "Open Containing Folder" context menu option when right clicking on a file's tab. Macros for when you are modifying massive files with consistent formatting. Double clicking on the TAB region where no tab exists opens a new file. VS2010 on my home compy does this, but VS2008 doesn't.

Holding ALT and dragging your cursor lets you not only delete a block of code, but you can type on multiple lines at once. It's the small things that count such as:

I have VS2008 at work for my projects, but whenever I need to write or heavily modify a function from scratch I move it to notepad++.
