March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
16h 33m
English
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The font Property
All of these properties are very sophisticated, of course, but using them all could start to get a little tedious:
h1 {font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30px;
font-weight: 900; font-style: italic; font-variant: small-caps;}
h2 {font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;
font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal;}Some of this could be solved by grouping selectors, but
wouldn’t it be easier to combine everything into a
single property? Enter font, which is the
shorthand property for all the other font properties (and a little
more besides).
Generally speaking, a font declaration can have
any one value from each of the listed font properties, or else a
“system font” value (described in
the Section 5.6.3).
Therefore, the preceding example could be shortened as follows:
h1 {font: italic 900 small-caps 30px Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;}
h2 {font: bold normal italic 24px Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;}and have exactly the same effect ...
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