- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:41:13 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- To: Daniel Glazman <glazman@netscape.com>
- cc: <www-dom@w3.org>, <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Daniel Glazman wrote: > > Let's suppose that the following CSS style declaration applies to a > given element : > > font-family : Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif > > What is the computed style value for 'font-family' on this element, > supposing that Helvetica font is not available on the system but Arial is ? > > (a) "Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" > (b) "Arial" > (c) "Arial, sans-serif > > ????? I can't find any clue about it in DOM Level 2 or CSS 2 specs. Since font-family is not relative, there is no reason for its specified value and computed value to differ. Hence, a. Note, however, that canonicalisation rules for CSS values may make that: "Helvetica", "Arial", sans-serif i.e., font-family names would get quoted. (Canonicalisation of CSS values is an open issue for CSS3.) (Either way it is definitely not b (since all fonts can get used depending on what glyphs an element with that font-family might contain).) -- Ian Hickson )\ _. - ._.) fL Invited Expert, CSS Working Group /. `- ' ( `--' The views expressed in this message are strictly `- , ) - > ) \ personal and not those of Netscape or Mozilla. ________ (.' \) (.' -' ______
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