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<font color> tag adding break lines above and below

July 29, 2009 9:05am

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#1 / Jul 29, 2009 9:05am
Tux Kapono
65 posts
I’ve never seen this before, but when I use <font color=“red”>red</a> in my body text, it adds a break line above and below the word when it’s displayed. Anyone have an idea why? It works fine when using
```
[color=red]red[/color]
```
but I’d rather not get in the habit of mixing codes.

Thanks!
#2 / Jul 29, 2009 9:17am

Ingmar
29245 posts

The <font> tag has been deprecated since HTML 4.0. Consequently, EE’s typography parser leaves the whole paragraph alone. At least that’s what I think is happening. You should probably use a <div> or <span> with a bit of CSS instead, or, yes, use pmCode.
#3 / Jul 29, 2009 10:27am

ender
1644 posts

as Ingmar suggested, using CSS is the preferred method of controlling fonts now. red would do the trick.