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Re: arial isn't allowed?

From: Dave Shea <dave@mezzoblue.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:19:09 -0700
Message-ID: <430668ED.7040008@mezzoblue.com>
To: www-validator-css@w3.org

 > > when I try to validate my CSS-file, the validator says
 > > " font-family : arial, sans-serif;" isn't good CSS.
 > > "It contains too many (unknown) values".
 > > But when I delete 'arial, ' it is OK.
 > > So the 'unknown value' is arial, but this is a standard
 > > font...
 >
 > It was indeed a mistake (triggered by the recent stricter
 > check of the number of values for a property and the
 > "inherit" case).
 > Fixed now.

Not quite fixed yet. It still affects voice-family, thus rendering 
Tantek's Box Model Hack invalid.

Try validating both of these by referrer (links found at the bottom of 
the respective pages):

http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/177/177.css

d.
Received on Friday, 19 August 2005 23:19:22 UTC

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