- From: Rijk van Geijtenbeek <rijk@iname.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:21:21 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Hello Ernest,
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 you wrote:
> On 12 Mar 2003, at 6:47, Christoph wrote:
>>> .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
Read the syntax description closely, and you'll note that the
declaration *has* to include a font-size value before the font-family
value. If it only contains a font-family value, it is not complete,
invalid, and should be ignored by the browser.
Greetings,
Rijk mailto:rijk@iname.com
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Received on Wednesday, 12 March 2003 14:21:23 UTC