CSS Question

Hi,

What does this style do?

<style type="text/css">
* {font: 9pt Arial, sans-serif}
</style>


Thanks,
Ali

I think that would give you a syntax error.

believe it should be

{
font-family:Arial, sans-serif;
font-size:9px;
}

what is "*" ? don't believe that is a valid tag.

A.M wrote:

Hi,

What does this style do?

style type="text/css"
* {font: 9pt Arial, sans-serif}
/style


Thanks,
Ali

A.M wrote:

Hi,

What does this style do?

style type="text/css"
* {font: 9pt Arial, sans-serif}
/style

The asterisk (*) is called the "universal selector". What it does is tell every
element in the document to have the style which follows. So this particular
style {font: 9pt Arial, sans-serif} will tell every element to be a 9pt font of
Arial or sans-serif.

However, not that pts are not a unit of measurement for the web. They are a
print unit.


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dave wrote:

I think that would give you a syntax error.

believe it should be

{
font-family:Arial, sans-serif;
font-size:9px;
}

Dave -

This is shorthand and perfectly acceptable. The rule for shorthand font is:

{font: font-style font-variant font-weight font-size/line-height font-family}

Therefore:

{font: bold small-caps 12-x/1.5 Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;}

The only 2 required for this shorthand are font-size and font-family.

So you can do this: {font: 12px Arial}
But not this: {font: 12px;} or this: {font: Arial;}

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Does this short hand validate with w3c css standards?


DiMa wrote:

Dave -

This is shorthand and perfectly acceptable. The rule for shorthand font is:

{font: font-style font-variant font-weight font-size/line-height font-family}

Therefore:

{font: bold small-caps 12-x/1.5 Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;}

The only 2 required for this shorthand are font-size and font-family.

So you can do this: {font: 12px Arial}
But not this: {font: 12px;} or this: {font: Arial;}

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dave wrote:

Does this short hand validate with w3c css standards?

Absolutely. Shorthand is just as valid as long hand.

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DiMa,

Learn something new everyday ... whether I want to or not.

* ... cool!

alex


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A.M wrote:
Hi,

What does this style do?

style type="text/css"
* {font: 9pt Arial, sans-serif}
/style

The asterisk (*) is called the "universal selector". What it does is tell
every
element in the document to have the style which follows. So this
particular
style {font: 9pt Arial, sans-serif} will tell every element to be a 9pt
font of
Arial or sans-serif.

So the right solution for my prvious post:

http://groups.google.ca/groups?q=Glo...a.com&rn um=1

Is *, isn't it?

Thanks,
Ali



"A.M" <I-Hate-Spam (AT) sapm (DOT) com> wrote

Hi,

What does this style do?

style type="text/css"
* {font: 9pt Arial, sans-serif}
/style


Thanks,
Ali

Alex Marino wrote:

DiMa,

Learn something new everyday ... whether I want to or not.

* ... cool!

Hey Alex! Long-time-no-see!

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A.M wrote:

So the right solution for my prvious post:


http://groups.google.ca/groups?q=Glo...e&hl=en &lr=&

ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=bra3ao%24nau%241%40forums.macromedia.com&rn um=1

Is *, isn't it?

If you don't care about NN 4.x, then yes, it should work. But do bear in mind
that there was something else going wrong with your code in that post, which is
why I requested an URL

What darrel suggested should work, too.

body, table, td, div, p {font....}

....is correct. If it doesn't carry the font-size to all specified elements then
something else in the page is screwing with it somehow. Could you post the code
here or show the URL?

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