1192724 - Make display of <var> tags italic

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Wiki pages, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

What feature should be changed? Please provide the URL of the feature if possible.
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<var> tags should be displayed italic.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Blob/type as an example.

What problems would this solve?
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This would allow to replace the currently used <em> for variable parts within syntax definitions by the semantically correct <var>.

Who would use this?
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All readers.

What would users see?
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Text enclosed by <var> being italic.

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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The related parts can be identified as variable.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

At least in a class=syntaxbox section (if it looks too bold to do it for the general case ;-) )

Comment 2

[MDN Team (:mdn-dev)]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/25f6891da22527fd6391f504c3fa9593e52a800c
Fix Bug 1192724 - Make <var> tags italic

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/a4a673644a8df2859ccc9970b2509b72dd71721b
Merge pull request #3395 from stephaniehobson/bug-1192724-var

Fix Bug 1192724 - Make <var> tags italic

Comment 3

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

Thanks, looks good!

Sebastian