This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
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Setting Multiple Font Values
Although you can set font properties independently, it is often useful, not to mention more concise, to put all font elements in a single definition. To do this, you use the font property.
This example (Code 3.6 and Figure 3.13 ) shows a level 1 header tag being defined, along with a class called copy that will be applied to paragraphs of text. In addition, the level 3 header tag is defined with the shorthand font style (see the sidebar "Using the Visitor's Styles" on the next page).
Example 3.6. The <h1> tag and copy class have had the various font styles set at the same time, while the <h3> tag uses a shorthand value to mimic the caption style.
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css"><!--
h1 {
font: bold italic small-caps
2.5em/3em 'minion web', Georgia,
'Times New Roman', Times, serif;
}
h3 {
font: caption;
}
.copy {
font: 10px/20px Arial, Helvetica,
Geneva, sans-serif;
}
--></style>
</head>
<body>
<hr>
<h1>Alice's Adventures In<br>
Wonderland</h1>
<h3>Lewis Carroll</h3>
<hr>
<h3>CHAPTER I<br>
Down the Rabbit-Hole</h3>
<p class="copy">Alice was beginning to
get very tired of sitting by her sister
on the bank...</p>
</body>
</html>
)
Figure 3.13 You can set all the font properties (and the line height) in a single definition and even instruct the page to use styles defined by the visitor's computer.
To define several font attributes simultaneously in a rule:
-
font:
Type the property name font, followed by a colon (:). Then type the values in the following steps (Table 3.9):
Table 3.9. font Values
Value
Compatibility
<font-family>
IE4, N4, S1, O3.5, CSS1
<font-style>
IE4, N4, S1, O3.5, CSS1
<font-variant>
IE4, N4, S1, O3.5, CSS1
<font-weight>
IE4, N4, S1, O3.5, CSS1
<font-size>
IE4, N4, S1, O3.5, CSS1
<font-height>
IE4, N4, S1, O3.5, CSS1
<visitor-style>
IE5, N6, S1, O3.5, CSS2
- bold Type a font-weight value, followed by a space (see "Setting Bold, Bolder, Boldest" earlier in this chapter).
- italic Type a font-style value, followed by a space (see "Making Text Italic" earlier in this chapter).
- small-caps Type a font-variant value, followed by a space (see the previous section, "Creating Small Caps").
- 2.5em Type a font-size value (see "Setting the Font Size" earlier in this chapter).
- /3em Type a forward slash (/), a line-height value, and a space (see "Adjusting Text Spacing" in Chapter 4).
- 'minion web', Georgia,
Type a font-family value and closing semicolon (refer to "Setting the Font" earlier in this chapter). 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;