Re: Font shorthand not validating

On Thu, 3 May 2012, Jay Cornell wrote:

> I have used the validator for years, but suddenly standard font declaration 
> shorthand is not validating, apparently because of the slash between the 
> font-size and line-height. Thus this code:
>
> p { font: 11px/14px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }
>
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> gives this error:
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> Value Error : font / is not a font-family value : 11px / 14px 
> Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif
>
>
> But without the slash and the line-height value it validates:
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> p { font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }
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> Even the W3C's own first example here gives the same validation error!
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#font-shorthand
>
> p { font: 12px/14px sans-serif }
>

Yes, the parsing is broken, font-* is next on the line for a major 
lifting.
Cheers,

>
>
> Thank you,
>
> --Jay Cornell
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>

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