CSS to change font

[JCO]

How would you modify this to include font color to be white:
<style type="text/css">ul,ol{colo r:white;}</style>

I tried this, but it did not work:
<style type="text/css">font color="#FFFFFF" ,ul,ol{color:wh ite;}</style>

[Michael Winter]

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 14:02:10 GMT, JCO <J.********@ver izon.net> wrote:

How would you modify this to include font color to be white:
<style type="text/css">ul,ol{colo r:white;}</style>
CSS is off-topic in this group. Please refer style sheet questions to
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets in the future.
I tried this, but it did not work:
<style type="text/css">font color="#FFFFFF" ,ul,ol{color:wh ite;}</style>

That's because it's an invalid selector. Read the specification regarding
selectors:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html

If you're using CSS, why are you bothering with deprecated elements like
FONT, anyway?

Your solution would either be to use a styled SPAN element to surround
highlighted text (which I assume is your goal):

span.white, ul, ol {
/*
Make sure that an explicit background-color property
is specified here or in an ancestor.
*/
color: #ffffff;
}
...
<p>Some <span class="white">w hite</span> text</p>

....or to match the color attribute value in the font element:

font[color="#ffffff"], ul, ol {
color: #ffffff;
}

The latter won't work in IE, due to its abysmal CSS 2 support, though it
will render the font element. The first solution is obviously preferred.

Mike

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[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

JCO wrote:

How would you modify this to include font color to be white:
<style type="text/css">ul,ol{colo r:white;}</style>

I tried this, but it did not work:
<style type="text/css">font color="#FFFFFF" ,ul,ol{color:wh ite;}</style>

No wonder it is not working, since it is invalid CSS at best:

<http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/>

You are looking for either

body, ul, ol {
color:white;
}

or

* {
color:white;
}

(to format all elements) and comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets
where all this is on-topic.

Be sure to specify a proper background-color, too:
<http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/color>
X-Post & F'up2 ciwas

PointedEars