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CSS Font Family


Topic

I want to set verdana or arial style font to my text, how?
How to set font type in html using style sheet?



Explanation

Property: Font Family

Usage:
font-family: [ [family-name | generic-family], ]*;

Definition:
The font family can be set using this tag.
There are numerous font families like serif, cursive, monospace etc....
Many font families can be set in order.
This is usually done because when the first family is not supported by the browser or not present the second is used and so on..
It takes the following values.
a)font-family | generic-family : e.g: serif , cursive , monospace

Example 1:
<div style="font-family: serif;">testing font family</div>

Result:
testing font family


Example 2:
<div style="font-family: courier;">testing font family</div>

Result:
testing font family


Example 3:
<div style="font-family: fantasy;">testing font family</div>

Result:
testing font family


Example 4:
<div style="font-family: tims, cursive, serif;">testing font family</div>

Result:
testing font family


Note: In this example we have set three font-families. As the first family(tims - a junk value) will not be available, the second one "cursive" is taken.

Most commonly used font types that are available in most platforms are Verdana, Arial, helvetica, san-serif.

Some other example Values you can use: serif, san-serif, cursive, monospace, fantasy, "times new roman", "new century schoolbook", helvetica, times, courier, western.






A Note
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets can be used along with html tags as explained in this site. This simple CSS will help you to create much elegant and neat html web pages. This does not need any additional softwares or codings. All web browser are capable of handing CSS codes.

Note 2: If required you can using <span> instead of <div> tags. div tag will start and end on new lines. span will not exceed the tag area.


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