Topic: CSS - Set default font (Page 1 of 1)

How can you set default font-family for the entire web page? I'd like to set the default font, so that my H1, P, A... assignments all inherit this font value.

Is it:

FONT {
font-family: ... ;
}

Thanks, Karl

You're close, but not quite there Try this:

h1, p, a, body {
font-family: ...;
}

You can seperate HTML tags and elements using commas and they will follow any properties defined within that block.

Err... my only complaint is:
That I have to implicitly set the default for each of these tags... I mean, I like the soluition and I can see using it for many many things. However, is there another way? A top level assignment?

Karl

A top level assignment. Absolutely:

body {
font-family:...
...and whatever else...
}

Some older browsers have bugs that the styles won't cascade down into tables, so you might have to do this:

body, td {
...
}

The 'top level' to which you can assign the font settings is the body tag. With

body { font-family: Verdana; }

all your page's text should appear in Verdana and does in all newer browsers. However, Netscape 4.x messes things up quite a bit, and if you want everything to look fine there as well, you'll have to add tags like td and p to be sure that the text they contain is really displayed in Verdana.

edit: Bah, too late again!

kuckus (cell #282)

[This message has been edited by kuckus (edited 06-22-2002).]

body{}! "Duhh!"

...and thanks for advice on tables, td's, etc..

Karl