On 6 Nov 98, Barry Lee Brisco wrote:
> face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
>
>
> Is "sans-serif" a font? I thought it was a type of font, a style. Why
> would someone spec it as a font name?
sans-serif -- and serif, cursive, fantasy and monospace -- are values of
the 'font-family' property in CSS. The intention is that if a user's broswer
does not have any of the specific faces listed (Arial or Helvetica in this
case), then the browser will substitute a generic font that is at least of
the same style.
In practice, I've only found three -- serif, sans-serif and monospace -- to
be recognized by the Big Two version-4.x browsers.
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