- From: Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:08:06 -0500
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
On 12 Mar 2003, at 6:47, Christoph wrote:
>
> "Ernest Cline" <ernestcline@mindspring.com>:
> >
> > .boldtext {font:serif; font-weight:bold}
> >
> > causes the text to be bold.
>
> Sure, because "font:serif", being invalid, is ignored.
>
> .boldtext {font: 1em serif; font-weight: bold}
>
> would be bold, too.
"font:serif" is perfectly valid. Check
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#font-shorthand
and you'll see that it is the same as specifying:
font-style:normal;
font-variant:normal;
font-weight:normal;
font-size:medium;
line:height:normal;
font-family:serif;
font-stretch:normal;
font-size-adjust none;
I'll grant that in the absence of any previous declarations on a
browser that has the default font set to the serif font, that there
would be no effect from such a rule, but that's not the same as it
being invalid.
Received on Wednesday, 12 March 2003 13:09:09 UTC