I have a client who is publishing a printed document alongside a website. The website contains additional information to the printed document, and the client wants to identify on the website where information is additional to that provided in the printed document.

The additional information could be extra paragraphs, additional sentences within paragraphs or even whole new pages. Also, in some cases, information on the web may be an expanded version of the printed document (ie rewritten in more detail).

The additional information on the web is not more or less important than that in the printed document, it is just additional.

My problem is that "normal" highlighting methods (subtle background color, text effects like italicizing etc) also draw the eye to the additional information in a way that distorts the importance of it. It makes it seem "special", more important. I need to find a way of "identifying" pieces of text, rather than "highlighting" them.

I also need to do this using valid CSS.

My initial thought was to show a faint vertical line to the left of the body content, eg:

    This is normal text which appears in
|   the printed document. However, this
|   sentence only appears on the website
|   and should be identified.  This last
    sentence is in the printed document
    and should show as normal again.

I am assuming I would put a <span class="additional"> (or equivalent) around the additional content, but can't find a way to achieve this effect.

Does anyone have any ideas how this could be achieved, or other ways of identifying the additional content which may work?

Many thanks,

Mike

Thanks Kanashii, but they're not printing the printed document from the website, it's completely separate. They just want to identify on the web where they're providing additional information to the printed document.

Mike

if you are going with the <span> and faded border the way you can make it work is by defining

span.aditional {
display:block;
/*rest of the code goes here*/
}

My question is why does the aditional text have to be highlighted? Do the printed documents point to the website for "aditional information" ? or is it just a client requirement?

It may be easier to make the additional text look a little less important, ie emphasise the main text rather than the additional? Your lines down the side seem a good idea. Just remove them for the additional, perhaps?