Re: Validating CSS using the Validator service

Mubina Bhimji wrote:

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> Family names containing whitespace should be quoted. If quoting is 
> omitted, any whitespace characters before and after the name are ignored 
> and any sequence of whitespace characters inside the name is converted 
> to a single space.

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> Can you please let me know what the above means – I submitted the 
> following and got 4 warnings:

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>             font-family:arial, helvetica, sans serif;

sans serif contains a whitespace character (in this case, a single space 
character), so you should quote it:

     'sans serif'  or  "sans serif"

but, you probably meant:

     sans-serif

Hope this helps,


Claude
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Received on Friday, 4 January 2008 15:19:52 UTC