Re: Font-family from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2003-08-07 (www-validator-css@w3.org from August 2003)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 15:37:52 +0200
To: Tom Thekathyil <tomt@vision.net.au>
Cc: www-validator-css@w3.org
Message-ID: <3f3e55e9.542991830@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* Tom Thekathyil wrote:
>I keep getting suggestions to use 'font' instead of 'font-family' in my 
>css.  However I note that most of the online tutorials I have checked as 
>well as a couple of books I have seen almost always use 'font-family'.  I 
>have also noticed that when I convert to 'font' the first type specified in 
>list is not what displays on the browser but the browser's default font 
>(tested on IE6.0 and Opera6.01).

Who tells you to use font instead of font-family? How does your font
declaration look like? I don't think there is anything wrong with
font-family.

Received on Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:38:11 UTC