[SOLVED] What tag should I use instead of deprecated tag font in html (cannot use CSS)

What tag should I use instead of deprecated tag font in html (cannot use CSS)

this question can create a misunderstanding: I know I have to use CSS to validate successfully my document as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. The fact is that I have to embed in my webpage a picture composed by zeros and ones created with text image, and the problem is that the code uses deprecated tag font and looks like this

<!-- IMAGE BEGINS HERE -->
<pre>
    <font size="-3">
        <font color="#000000">0001100000101101100011</font>
        <font color="#010000">00</font>
        <font color="#020101">0</font>
        <font color="#040101">0</font>
        <font color="#461919">1</font>
        <font color="#b54f4f">1</font>
        ...etc.etc...
    </font>
</pre>
<!-- IMAGE ENDS HERE -->

(In this code example I inserted a newline after each couple of tags to make it more readable, but the original code is all in one line because of the <pre> tag). The font's color changes at least thousands times so I never considered to create a field in the CSS for each combination.Hope someone knows at least where to find a solution, I searched everywhere :) Thanks

Solution

You could replace

<font color="#000000">0001100000101101100011</font>

with

<span style="color:#000000">0001100000101101100011</span>

etc...

*Edit: I know this is CSS, but it doesn't involve a separate stylesheet like the question states, which may be ok.