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Default Page Font
Beginner question: How do you set a default font for a page using HTML
3.0? I know how to set the font for each line of text, but I'm sure there's a correct way to set a default font. The font does not change in size or weight throughout the page. |
Re: Default Page Font
mcp6453 <mcp6453@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Beginner question: How do you set a default font for a page using > HTML 3.0? Using a linked style sheet. But the question reveals that you really need to read an HTML tutorial, _especially_ if you just read one and it taught you HTML 3.0 - which is an incomplere draft that expired in 1995. It was never approved, still less implemented. So you can't really use HTML 3.0 anywhere, except to the extent that it coincides with what has actually been implemented. In HTML as implemented, and as defined in HTML 3.2 and HTML 4, you could use <basefont face="...">, but its effect has been vaguely defined and inconsistently implemented. So just forget it. A simple way of setting the default font face is this (it means using a style sheet embedded into HTML): add the following into the <head> part of your document: <style type="text/css"> body { font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } </style> Adjust the font list as desired. You don't need to list several fonts, but if you do, a browser uses the first one in the list that is available on the system. -- Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html |
Re: Default Page Font
In article <41273A4E.539F@earthlink.net>, mcp6453@earthlink.net says...
> Beginner question: How do you set a default font for a page using HTML > 3.0? I know how to set the font for each line of text, but I'm sure > there's a correct way to set a default font. The font does not change in > size or weight throughout the page. Short answer is you don't, the user will decide. The long answer is use CSS. Go to www.w3schools.com and take the 30 minutes to run through the tutorial for CSS. -- WebcastMaker Webcasting for free http://www.webentations.com |
Re: Default Page Font
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> > mcp6453 <mcp6453@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > Beginner question: How do you set a default font for a page using > > HTML 3.0? > > Using a linked style sheet. > > But the question reveals that you really need to read an HTML tutorial, > _especially_ if you just read one and it taught you HTML 3.0 - which is > an incomplere draft that expired in 1995. It was never approved, still > less implemented. So you can't really use HTML 3.0 anywhere, except to > the extent that it coincides with what has actually been implemented. > > In HTML as implemented, and as defined in HTML 3.2 and HTML 4, you could > use <basefont face="...">, but its effect has been vaguely defined and > inconsistently implemented. So just forget it. > > A simple way of setting the default font face is this (it means using a > style sheet embedded into HTML): add the following into the <head> part > of your document: > > <style type="text/css"> > body { font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } > </style> > > Adjust the font list as desired. You don't need to list several fonts, > but if you do, a browser uses the first one in the list that is available > on the system. Great. Thanks! |
Re: Default Page Font
"Titus A Ducksass - AKA broken-record" <me@neverumind.com> wrote in message news:ufkei05c50jhs8u9ofht6m1232rrqd9qdu@4ax.com... > On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 12:03:26 GMT, mcp6453 <mcp6453@earthlink.net> > wrote: > > >Beginner question: How do you set a default font for a page using HTML > >3.0? I know how to set the font for each line of text, but I'm sure > >there's a correct way to set a default font. The font does not change in > >size or weight throughout the page. > Why bother? > People like me turn off designer fonts and sizes and use our own css > instead so that we can read a site using fonts and sizes that we want > to use not what some stupid designer wants us to use. you, and the three other people who you say are "like you" in your example, represent such a miniscule demographic that you hardly make a compelling argument for not changing fonts. -karl |
Re: Default Page Font
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 12:03:26 GMT, mcp6453 <mcp6453@earthlink.net>
wrote: >Beginner question: How do you set a default font for a page using HTML >3.0? I know how to set the font for each line of text, but I'm sure >there's a correct way to set a default font. The font does not change in >size or weight throughout the page. Why bother? People like me turn off designer fonts and sizes and use our own css instead so that we can read a site using fonts and sizes that we want to use not what some stupid designer wants us to use. -- Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. |
Re: Default Page Font
In article <cg7llm$jq7$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com>,
karl@NOSPAMkarlcore.com says... > > Why bother? > > People like me turn off designer fonts and sizes and use our own css > > instead so that we can read a site using fonts and sizes that we want > > to use not what some stupid designer wants us to use. > you, and the three other people who you say are "like you" in your example, > represent such a miniscule demographic that you hardly make a compelling > argument for not changing fonts. Did I wake up in some bizzaro world? 0_o -- WebcastMaker Webcasting for free http://www.webentations.com |
Re: Default Page Font
In article <hdoei0l4ecr761g0fuoaugqak4tahs5575@4ax.com>,
me@neverumind.com says... > >> > Why bother? > >> > People like me turn off designer fonts and sizes and use our own css > >> > instead so that we can read a site using fonts and sizes that we want > >> > to use not what some stupid designer wants us to use. > >> you, and the three other people who you say are "like you" in your example, > >> represent such a miniscule demographic that you hardly make a compelling > >> argument for not changing fonts. > >Did I wake up in some bizzaro world? 0_o > When you are going blind, it is very important to be able to change > the font and the contrast and colour and size and and and .... You completely missed the boat on this one. I was commenting on Karls reply, he is usually a proponent, his remark made me think otherwise. -- WebcastMaker Webcasting for free http://www.webentations.com |
Re: Default Page Font
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:48:09 -0400, WebcastMaker <info@invalid.com>
wrote: >In article <cg7llm$jq7$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com>, >karl@NOSPAMkarlcore.com says... >> > Why bother? >> > People like me turn off designer fonts and sizes and use our own css >> > instead so that we can read a site using fonts and sizes that we want >> > to use not what some stupid designer wants us to use. > >> you, and the three other people who you say are "like you" in your example, >> represent such a miniscule demographic that you hardly make a compelling >> argument for not changing fonts. > >Did I wake up in some bizzaro world? 0_o When you are going blind, it is very important to be able to change the font and the contrast and colour and size and and and .... -- Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. |
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