<eric>only in xhtml;
everything should be lower case.</eric>

Actually as the properties are 'values' case is not even important here.

i.e.

<div style="font:times new roman;">
<div style="font:Times New Roman;">
<div style="FONT:times new roman;">

are all ok

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: "EB" <doublebase(at)wanadoo.nl>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: Serif fonts


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dale <dale(at)hiwaay.net>
> Subject: Re: Serif fonts
>
>
> | I have another question about styles.  When I do this:
> |
> | P, DIV, BLOCKQUOTE, TD { font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, Times
New
> | Roman, Times, serif }
>
> note that you can use the shorthand if you define size and family:
> font: 13px Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;
> this also sets font-weight, font-style, font-variant and line-height to
> their initial value(normal)
>
> | do I need to place quotes around Times New Roman?
>
> yes
> for backwards compatibility double quotes are preferable ("blah" rather
than
> 'blah') and close with a semicolon when using quoted statements including
> whitespace; afaik only ie3 has probs with this but it's little extra
effort
> :)
>
> | Also, does capitalization matter?
>
> only in xhtml;
> everything should be lower case.
>
> cheers, eric
>
>

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