>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.
Hi Brent,
Thanks for your comments. But it seems pretty useless to me to put
sans-serif in the font face tag; if a system doesn't have Arial or
Helvetica it doesn't seem likely it will have any other suitable font,
since those are so basic. Or is this more targeted at non-PC non-Mac
systems, say UNX boxes?
Barry
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Web Design & Development - Online Marketing <http://www.ToTheWeb.com>
Web portfolio at <http://www.ToTheWeb.com/portfolio>
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