Hello all,
It stinks being a newbie! One thing that I'm not sure about with CSS
is: where is the "proper" place to put font attibutes? This has me a
little confused. Take the below style sheet (which is a work in
progress) as an example. If I don't put the font attributes in the
<body> <p> and <td> tags, the font will not appear the way I want (when
I work in FrontPage, anyway). It doesn't seem to be enough to put the
font attributes in the <body> tag, I have to put it everywhere if I
want my page to look uniform. Is this correct, or am I missing
something?
body { background-color: black; margin: 5 5 5 5 }
p { font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; color: white; line-height:
125%; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px}
table {width: 100%; align:top; border-collapse: collapse; padding: 5px}
tr { vertical-align: top; text-align: left}
td { font-family: arial; font-size: 13pt; color: white; line-height:
125%; padding: 7px }
#tdfaq { font-family: arial; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: bold; color:
black; line-height: 125%; padding: 7px }
h1 { font-family: arial; color: white; font-size: 24pt; font-weight:
bold; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; text-align:center
}
..faq { background-image:url('imag es/background_faq. gif'); font-color:
black}
Thanks in advance for any replies. I ahev more questions that I will
post soon :>)
Viken K. 14  2663 
On 21 Mar 2005 11:13:32 -0800, Viken Karaguesian <vi****@aol.com > wrote: It stinks being a newbie! One thing that I'm not sure about with CSS
is: where is the "proper" place to put font attibutes? This has me a
little confused. Take the below style sheet (which is a work in
progress) as an example. If I don't put the font attributes in the
<body> <p> and <td> tags, the font will not appear the way I want (when
I work in FrontPage, anyway).
For starters: Download some (free of shareware) browsers to test your pages in.
Like Opera, Mozilla and FireFox. Don't rely on what FrontPage shows you. There
is no such thing as WYSIWYG.
It doesn't seem to be enough to put the
font attributes in the <body> tag, I have to put it everywhere if I
want my page to look uniform. Is this correct, or am I missing
something?
It should be enough. If you set a font-family as a property for the body
selector and do not specify it for other elements, the font-family will be
inherited by elements you don't set another font-family for. In your example I
don't see you setting a font-family for the body. body { background-color: black; margin: 5 5 5 5 }
Where is it at?
Also: the 5 5 5 5 won't do. If you set a length other then 0, zero, you need to
specify what it is. Is it em, en, ex, inch, cm, px, sheep, distance to the moon
and back? What is that 5?
Other comments (for now):
- you use a lot of fixed sized values. That is not such a good idea. Google voor
liquid or fluid design <http://www.google.com/search?q=liquid +OR+fluid+desig n>
- you use point for your font-size. Not a good idea either. Point is for paper.
For screen there are other, more useful lengths, such as 'em' or '%'. Google
this group and find out why a fixed size for fonts is not good design.
- you use font-color:black; there is no such property in CSS, you mean
color:black; Get used to working very exact and validate your work to find just
these strange anomalities at
<http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html> for your CSS and at
<http://validator.w3.or g/> for your markup.
- you use table {width:100%;} and other styles that make me think you use tables
for you layout. Google for tableless design to find out why not to do that
< http://www.google.com/search?q=%20tableless design%20> and
<http://groups.google.c om/groups?q=tablel ess+design&as_u group=alt.html% 2C+comp.infosys tems.www.author ing.%2A>
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Viken Karaguesian wrote: It stinks being a newbie! One thing that I'm not sure about with CSS
is: where is the "proper" place to put font attibutes?
There are no attributes in CSS. CSS has properties. And "font" is generally
best avoided, short hand properties have a tendency to reset some
unspecified values unexpectedly.
This has me a
little confused. Take the below style sheet (which is a work in
progress) as an example. If I don't put the font attributes in the
<body> <p> and <td> tags,
Internet Explorer has certain issues with inheriting some properties into
tables, so you need to respecify some of them on table elements (e.g. table
{ font-size: 100%; } to use the same font size as the parent element.
It doesn't have a problem with elements other then table though, at least as
far as I'm aware.
the font will not appear the way I want (when
I work in FrontPage, anyway).
FrontPage is not a very good piece of software.
body { background-color: black; margin: 5 5 5 5 }
Its always a good idea to specify a foreground colour when you specify a
background colour. You might have a user who has a default scheme of black
on white (in fact, that's very common!) so they will get black text on a
black background.
Also, for lengths other then zero, units are required. (e.g. margin: 5ex; ).
The validator would have told you this: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
p { font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;
Points are highly unsuitable units for use of screen.
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPoints
table {width: 100%; align:top;
There is no align property in CSS (again - validator!)
.faq { background-image:url('imag es/background_faq. gif');
Internet Explorer for Mac has a bug in which is can't recognise urls of the
form: url('foo'), stick to url(foo) or url("foo") instead.
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Home is where the ~/.bashrc is
Viken Karaguesian wrote: Hello all,
Hi you,
It stinks being a newbie!
No it doesn't -- it's the starting point of every professional ;-)
One thing that I'm not sure about with CSS
is: where is the "proper" place to put font attibutes?
Whereever you need them. Start with the <body> element, and where you
want it differently, you set it to that element.
This has me a
little confused. Take the below style sheet (which is a work in
progress) as an example. If I don't put the font attributes in the
<body> <p> and <td> tags, the font will not appear the way I want (when
I work in FrontPage, anyway).
As far as I know, <p> should take it from <body>, but <td> doesn't in
some browsers.
It doesn't seem to be enough to put the
font attributes in the <body> tag, I have to put it everywhere if I
want my page to look uniform. Is this correct, or am I missing
something?
Really, afaik only TD (and form elements like input and textarea)
sometimes doesn't take the styles from <body>.
body { background-color: black; margin: 5 5 5 5 }
margin: 5 what? Hobnobs? I reckon you mean 5px, as 5em seems a bit
wide as a margin. Or maybe you mean 5%, that's a good possibility too.
The browser isn't good at guessing though.
p { font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; color: white; line-height:
125%; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px}
You do realize that you didn't set any font styles in the body in this
stylesheet, right?
table {width: 100%; align:top; border-collapse: collapse; padding: 5px}
align isn't a valid property, I think you mean vertical-align.
tr { vertical-align: top; text-align: left}
Those 2 properties should be set to the TD.
td { font-family: arial; font-size: 13pt; color: white; line-height:
125%; padding: 7px }
#tdfaq { font-family: arial; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: bold; color:
black; line-height: 125%; padding: 7px }
h1 { font-family: arial; color: white; font-size: 24pt; font-weight:
bold; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; text-align:center
}
.faq { background-image:url('imag es/background_faq. gif'); font-color:
black}
font-color should be color.
And to all of the above: don't use pt for screen font sizes. Use %
instead.
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Els wrote: Viken Karaguesian wrote: This has me a
little confused. Take the below style sheet (which is a work in
progress) as an example. If I don't put the font attributes in the
<body> <p> and <td> tags, the font will not appear the way I want (when
I work in FrontPage, anyway).
As far as I know, <p> should take it from <body>, but <td> doesn't in
some browsers.
IIRC this (that the font style is not inherited to <td> tags) only applies
when the browser is in quirks mode. (This behaviour probably dates back to
NS4 that doesn't works as expected in cases like
<font face="..."><tab le>....</table></font>
e.g. you had to insert the <font> tag into every <td>. These times where
really ugly...)
Using the correct doctype declaration to trigger strict mode should fix it
in IE (6 at least).
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Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://www.odahoda.de/
"Viken Karaguesian" <vi****@aol.com > wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ l41g2000cwc.goo glegroups.com.. . Hello all,
It stinks being a newbie! One thing that I'm not sure about with CSS
is: where is the "proper" place to put font attibutes? This has me a
little confused. Take the below style sheet (which is a work in
progress) as an example. If I don't put the font attributes in the
<body> <p> and <td> tags, the font will not appear the way I want (when
I work in FrontPage, anyway). It doesn't seem to be enough to put the
font attributes in the <body> tag, I have to put it everywhere if I
want my page to look uniform. Is this correct, or am I missing
something?
body { background-color: black; margin: 5 5 5 5 }
p { font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; color: white; line-height:
125%; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px}
table {width: 100%; align:top; border-collapse: collapse; padding: 5px}
tr { vertical-align: top; text-align: left}
td { font-family: arial; font-size: 13pt; color: white; line-height:
125%; padding: 7px }
#tdfaq { font-family: arial; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: bold; color:
black; line-height: 125%; padding: 7px }
h1 { font-family: arial; color: white; font-size: 24pt; font-weight:
bold; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; text-align:center
}
.faq { background-image:url('imag es/background_faq. gif'); font-color:
black}
Thanks in advance for any replies. I ahev more questions that I will
post soon :>)
Viken K.
My experience is that in IE you should apply font attributes in your style
sheet to any elements you want to have that effect on. I therefore will
apply font attributes to <p> <td> <body> <div> <h1> <ul> etc. If I have a
piece of text I want to look different I will use a span tag (overidding or
in addition to the parent style) for that particular item. I recommend you
use pixels instead of points to indicate font size.
Signed,
me
> My experience is that in IE you should apply font attributes in your style sheet to any elements you want to have that effect on. I therefore will
apply font attributes to <p> <td> <body> <div> <h1> <ul> etc. If I have a
piece of text I want to look different I will use a span tag (overidding
or
in addition to the parent style) for that particular item.
I recommend you
use pixels instead of points to indicate font size.
Signed,
me
The funny thing is: when I used pixels as the font size, it didn't seem to
work very well. When I changed to points, the font seemed to look OK.
me wrote: [...] I recommend you
use pixels instead of points to indicate font size.
There's a bad bit of advice. Use % or ems.
You've been hanging around here for a while. Why would you suggest such
a poor idea?
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OK...I know that nobody likes Frontpage and everyone hates Microsoft,
but
that's what I have to work with for now :>) I do have Opera and
Firefox and
test things out on those browsers as well.
So if I put the font-size and type in the body tag, it should generally
work
within the other tags?
Thanks for all the replies.
I just need to keep experimenting until I find out how things work...
Viken
"Jim Moe" <jm************ ***@sohnen-moe.com> wrote in message
news:T7******** ************@gi ganews.com... me wrote: [...] I recommend you
use pixels instead of points to indicate font size.
There's a bad bit of advice. Use % or ems.
You've been hanging around here for a while. Why would you suggest such
a poor idea?
I suggested it because it work in IE on Windows. You're intilted to your
opinion but you didn't say why my advice is bad or my idea poor. Also see
this from my previous post in another thread:
This may be OT: Please excuse me but I'm going to throw a hand grenade. IMO
it's time to wake up and smell the coffee folks. It seems to me that many of
the most popular sites use fixed font sizes, usually in pixels, whatever
font they please and non-fluid layouts. With few exceptions the only people
I see not doing this are militant IE haters and fundamentalist designers
whose posts I read in NG's. As proof I offer www.weather.com. I don't say
this is a great site but everybody needs to know what the weather will be
like sometime.
In addition some people here say that if someone with such and such
browser/PPI/resolution etc etc etc visits site X that has a fixed font with
a fixed layout they will become disoriented or confused and immediately
leave. I disagree, those people have very likely already visited sites where
they experienced that phenomena and they know that their
browser/settings/preferences are what's affecting the site. IMO these people
are able to cope and have already found a work around that will accommodate
their needs. I think they're used to doing this on a regular basis and
aren't nearly as put off by it as some here might think.
May I offer my most humble apologies for the rude awakening I have visited
upon this rarefied group? ;-)
Signed,
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