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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

by Eric A. Meyer
March 2004
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
528 pages
16h 33m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

font-weight

Synopsis

This property sets the font weight used in rendering an element’s text. The numeric value 400 is equivalent to the keyword normal, and 700 is equivalent to bold. Each numeric value must be at least as light as the next lowest number and at least as heavy as the next highest number.

Values:

normal | bold | bolder | lighter | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 | 600 | 700 | 800 | 900 | inherit

Initial value:

normal

Applies to:

all elements

Inherited:

yes

Computed value:

one of the numeric values (100, etc.), or one of the numeric values plus one of the relative values (bolder or lighter)

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