>Actually, on the macintosh, there is a font called sans-serif. I believe it
>is pretty standard on that platform.
Kayla, I do not believe that this font is standard on Macs. I have all the
fonts that came with OS8.0 and it's not present on my system. I've never
seen it.
Brent's explanation below seems like a plausible one as to why I sometimes
see it in the font face tag.
Barry
>At 06:29 PM 11/6/98 -0500, Brent Eades wrote:
>>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.
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