RE: font size

by Chuck Evans <Chucke(at)captura.com>

Date:	Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:50:00 -0800
To:	"'Rebecca Campbell'" <rcampbel(at)standard.com>, "'Gary Thorpe'" <gthorpe(at)saltus.bm>, web design guild <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
	todo: View Thread, Original

Better add P, UL and OL to that style definition, since Netscape doesn't
pick up the BODY style automatically for P, etc.

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Chuck Evans
Web Marketing Manager
Captura Software, Inc.
(425) 424-1155
chucke(at)captura.com
www.captura.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Rebecca Campbell [mailto:rcampbel(at)standard.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 9:43 AM
To: 'Gary Thorpe'; web design guild
Subject: RE: font size


gary, 

cascading style sheets will do the trick...  put the following between your
<head> tags:

<style>
body, td { font-family: arial, helvetica, sans serif; 
               font-size:  10pt;  }
</style>

this will display all the text on your page and in a table cell (except
headers and links and other defined styles) as arial 10pt.  if the person
doesn't have arial on their machine, it will look for helvetica and then for
sans serif.

for more on style sheets, check out http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/.
particular things you may want to learn about are what browsers support
style sheets, and to what extent and the use of 'em' instead of 'pt' (like i
have in my example).

hth,
-rebecca
http://www.nerdygirl.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Thorpe [mailto:gthorpe(at)saltus.bm]
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 11:14 AM
To: web design guild
Subject: font size


How can i make the font size for a whole page apply right the way through
it?
I want to apply a font size through standard text and text inside the table
cells on my bermuda home page on the site and if you take a look at it I
have had to use the font size tag for each data cell which is mightily
frustrating considering i am gonna be producing a lot more annotated pics in
the future.
any suggestions greatly appreciated!
www.bermuda.ic24.net
go to the scenic bermuda page on there

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