October 2006
Beginner to intermediate
352 pages
9h 33m
English
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Fonts and Text
One of the first presentation-specific HTML elements was font, and it’s also one of the older HTML
elements you still find, all too frequently, in web pages. It’s not
surprising that font and text properties were of such interest in
building web pages. Few changes you can make to an element’s style attributes can have such an effect as
changing the text or font properties.
Notice I say text or font properties. The font has to do with the characters themselves:
their family, size, type, and other elements of the characters’
appearance. The text attributes,
though, have more to do with decoration attached to the text and include
text decoration, alignment, and so on.
Font Style Properties
There are several style attributes for fonts. Their CSS name and the associated
JavaScript-accessible style
attribute are given in the following list:
-
font-family Access it as
fontFamilyin JavaScript. This adjusts the font family (such as Serif, Arial, Verdana) for the font. When specifying a multiword font family, type the family name exactly; this includes spaces.-
font-size Access it as
fontSizein JavaScript. This sets the size of the font. You can use different units when setting the font size. If you useemorptwith the size (such as12ptor2.5em), the font is resized according to the web-page reader’s personal settings. If you usepx(pixel), the font is maintained at that size regardless of user settings. Specify some unit when settingfont-sizewith JavaScript or use one ...
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