another CSS question...

[Roo]

Am trying to work out how I can use CSS properly when wanting to, for instance, italicise or bold only part of a paragraph. I'm ok with being able to change styles for <p> blocks, but want to be able to format text in paragraphs and headers with mixed style text.
anyone out there help?

[Danielnash]

First you have to maintain CSS and you have to call this in web page's view source file. For be able to format text in paragraphs with mixed style text you have to define style in CSS.

[Roo]

thanks dan.
the way I resolved this after recieving a few similair replies to yours was by using <span class="italic>text</span>
and defining in the CSS that .italic {font-style:italic;}

amazing how many replies I got that didn't take me anywhere near the solution! A lot wanted me to use <em> which just didn;t work the same and looked terrible.

[airforce1]

Right, style might be used to a block elements on pages but span is special useful for inline elements.