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New elements

The following completely new elements have been added:

NOBR (no break element)

All text entered between the start and end NOBR tags will be displayed without a line break. To be used with caution.

WBR (word break element)

This is intended to be used within the text contained in a NOBR element to pinpoint the exact location where you could just about bear to allow a browser to insert a line break if it really and truly needed to.

FONT (font element)

The FONT element is introduced with a single attribute SIZE to allow the font size to be specified. Values are in the range 1 to 7, the default being 3. If the value is preceded by a plus or a minus sign, this indicates that the font size is being specified as relative to the document's base font size (see below).

BASEFONT (base font element)

The BASEFONT element is introduced with a single attribute SIZE to allow the base font size to be specified. As with the font size, values are in the range 1 to 7, defaulting to 3. Unlike FONT SIZE, BASEFONT SIZE is always an absolute value.

CENTER (centering element)

All text between the start and end CENTER tags to be displayed centred between left and right margins. This functionality is provided in HTML 3.0 by the attribute value ALIGN="CENTER" in a paragraph or header element.

Two new special characters have also been added: ® for the the registered trademark symbol, , and © for the copyright symbol, ©. Both of these are included in the proposals for HTML 3.0 and are supported by Arena.

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
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