Practical Web Technologies

2.2. Controlling text properties with style

CSS font properties provide a more logical set of tools to control the way texts are displayed on a Web page. They are more powerful than the FONT attribute introduced in HTML 3.x or earlier. Thus, unless backward compatibility is required, CSS properties are used throughout this book.

Some frequently used CSS properties related to font are listed in Table 2.1.

Table 2.1. Font family, size, weight, style, and color

CSS property	CSS values	NS	IE	Description	CSS version
Color	#rrggbb color name	4.+	4.+	Sets the color of the font in 24-bit red, green, blue mode	CSS1
Font	font-family, font-size, font-style, font-weight	4.+	4.+	A shorthand property to set all font values	CSS1
Font family	Family nameGeneric family	4.+	4.+	A prioritized ...