Cgi font not working (ruby 1.8)

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Hi all, i’m relative new to ruby. I’ve been using CGI class to make a simple
script, but what i found when using cgi.font the next error:

./pass.cgi:28: undefined method `font’ for #CGI:0x40308180 (NoMethodError)

Isn’t font implemented?

Thx.

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If you want to use the font tag, you must use html3, not html4; W3C
either deprecated or removed it in the html4 spec.

irb(main):040:0> c=CGI.new(‘html4’)
[…]
irb(main):041:0> c.font{“test”}
NoMethodError: undefined method `font’ for #CGI:0x59978c
from (irb):41

irb(main):042:0> c=CGI.new(‘html3’)
[…]
irb(main):043:0> c.font{“test”}
=> “test”

But it would be a better choice to use styles, since the font tag is
considered somewhat of a no-no these days. You might want to try this
instead:

irb(main):044:0> c=CGI.new(‘html4’)
[…]
irb(main):045:0> c.span(‘style’=>“font-family:Garamond,Georgia,‘Times
New Roman’,serif”){“text goes here”}
=> “<SPAN style="font-family:Garamond,Georgia,‘Times New
Roman’,serif">text goes here”

cheers,
–Mark

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On Apr 15, 2004, at 8:48 AM, tigre@digital-style.org wrote:

Hi all, i’m relative new to ruby. I’ve been using CGI class to make a
simple
script, but what i found when using cgi.font the next error:

./pass.cgi:28: undefined method `font’ for #CGI:0x40308180
(NoMethodError)

Isn’t font implemented?