Re: styling flexibility for definitions

[Per Bothner]

On 10/30/20 6:34 AM, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 05:05:28AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> > On 10/30/20 12:13 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
> >
> > I don't think there is a strong reason to not use non-standard attributes:
> > It's fully supported by javascript and css.  There are a couple of minor reasons
> > (validation becomes more complicated without a custom DTD, and there is a small 
> > chance
> > they might clash with a future standard or browser extension), and some people
> > disapprove of them.
>
> Why not simply use another class?

One could use a separate class for each category.  For example:
    <dt class="synopsis Function">
or:
    <dt class="synopsis category-function">

However, that would seem to require a distinct CSS style for each category.
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