the following font style code does not work in firefox, I tested it in chrome and iexplorer and it works, so must be a compatibility problem.
font: italic normal normal normal 12px/15.3599996566772px Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
Can someone confirm it, or maybe there's an alternative for firefox.
FIX:
font: italic normal normal 12px/15.3599996566772px Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
For FireFox, you should set all the properties without using the shorthand property. font: is the shorthand property for many other font properties:
Instead it should look like this:
font-family: monospace;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: bold;
color: blue;
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_font_font.asp
This appears to be a bug in Firefox. In the Developer Tools, no errors are shown, but when inspecting style sheets, the styles for the element are empty.
A quick workaround is to remove of the normal keywords (or all of them, since they are redundant: all sub-properties not set explicitly in a font shorthand are set to their initial values).
P.S. Your code is correct, Firefox just does not handle it well. As a reference to font shorthand syntax (if you use it), use the W3C CSS 2.1 specification.
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It's screenshot of the code I am working with. I want to understand the font-family declaration syntax and in what sequence it works
Here's the code:
body {
font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Roboto",
"Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 1.6rem;
line-height: 1.5;
text-align: center;
color: #333333;
margin: 0;
}
Basically I want to understand the font-family declaration syntax
The font-family property can hold several fonts. If the browser does not support the first font, it tries the next font. If the browser supports "Segoe UI" it will be "Segoe UI" otherwise it moves to next.
So as a best practice order your fonts in the order you need.
The font family is applied in order from the font you entered first.
For example, if a user's PC does not have a font, it is applied in order from the very beginning.
if there is a corresponding font, the fonts that follow the applied font will not be applied.
If the font name contains spaces, use quotation marks to indicate that it is a single font.
I'm not good at English, so I don't know if I delivered it correctly, but I hope it helped.
For google fonts the font-family and font-weight are variables. The short syntax should be
font: 400 "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
But I get invalid property value,
Is there a way to declare just font-weight and font family in the short version? I want everything else to stay as it is (font style etc)
I believe the font-size must be specified when using font shorthand.font: 400 12px "Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
See http://www.impressivewebs.com/css-font-shorthand-property-cheat-sheet/ and http://www.w3.org/wiki/CSS/Properties/font
You'll need to use the good old font-weight and font-family instead of the shorthand.
I have the following CSS declaration:
body {font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", "DejuVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", sans-serif;
It isn't loading on the page. I'm having to add:
<style>
body {font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", "DejuVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", sans-serif;}
</style>
To the HTML to get it to work...This is true in chrome and safari...this one is weird, thoughts?
Note that all other CSS is working correctly...
So, !important worked, I'm not sure why. One note, I took out the extra families, it looks like this now:
body, body * {
font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif !important;
}
But changing that had nothing to do with fixing it. The !important fixed it. Even though there isn't anything else changing the font-family at any other point in the CSS (refer to the working JS Fiddle). I attached a screenshot of the developer tools to show the inheritance.
have you tried to select following?
body, body * {
font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", "DejuVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", sans-serif;
} /* this affects every element in the body and the body itself */
/* OR just */
* {
font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", "DejuVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", sans-serif;
} /* this affects every element */
here is what you can do with CSS3:
http://www.css3.info/preview/web-fonts-with-font-face/
some font-families have to be enabled using `font-face, usually u do something like this
#font-face {
font-family: 'alex_brushregular';
src: url('alexbrush-regular-otf-webfont.eot');
src: url('alexbrush-regular-otf-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('alexbrush-regular-otf-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('alexbrush-regular-otf-webfont.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
body {
font-family: 'alex_brushregular', Arial, "sans-serif";
}
This is an old post, but in case people have the same kind of problems and ended up here, I would suggest you make sure no errors in your css file (the easiest way to check is to comment out all settings except the font family or replace the css file with one that has just the font family setting). I just had the same problem and found the cause, after hours of frustration and no solutions from googling (that's why I came to this post; adding important! didn't work for me), was an error in my css file, so the browser skipped some settings including the font family. Although there're no errors in the css text shown in the original post, there might be one in the real css file.
Just try with the following example :
#font-face{font-family:'Arvo';src:url('fonts/Arvo-Regular.ttf')}
#font-face{font-family:'Erasmd';src:url('fonts/ERASMD.TTF')}
body { font-family: Arvo; }
(or)
body { font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; }
I think this may help you to resolve your problem.
Something like this can also happen if your browser is using a cached version of your CSS file.
A "hard refresh" using CTRL+F5 might help in that case, as suggested e.g. here and here, and e.g. in the Firefox docs.
In my experience I had issues because there was only text within buttons on the page I was testing.
Setting the button font-family to inherit fixed the issue. I'm guessing this might extend to other elements also.
body {
font-family: <your family>;
}
button {
font-family:inherit;
}
It May be due the font you are using is not installed in your browser(even some 'websafe' fonts).Try using generic-font(like sans-serif,cursive,monospace) to see if the you style decalartion is working..
I know that Alt is used for images in HTML, but is there a way to apply it to text via CSS?
Example:
input { color: #62161e; font-size: 25px; font-family: Lintel; }
So say Lintel does not display properly in some browsers. Is there an alt option to display Helvetica or something?
In CSS, you can specify a list of font families to follow and the browser will use the first one that it supports. So if you want to display Helvetica if Lintel is unavailable, you would simply do this:
font-family: Lintel, Helvetica;
Remember that if the font family has a space in it, you need to surround it in double quotes, like with the line I use for my website:
font-family: "Segoe UI", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
You can provide multiple fonts and the browser will pick the first available font.
Yes, you can chain fonts.
font-family: Lintel, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
If you are defining both font-size and font-family I suggest you use the shorthand version:
font: 25px Lintel, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
You can add more to this as well:
font: (weight) (size)/(line-height) (family);
The only two that are required are size and family.
font: bold 30px/25px Lintel, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
I have my fonts set in my style.css:
font-family: "Arial, Verdana, sans-serif";
But my website still seems to use sans serif. What is the problem here?
The commas in your CSS font-family specification need to be outside the quotes.
For example:
font-family: "Arial", "Verdana", sans-serif; /* And you should really
omit the quotes if it's only one word */
Not
font-family: "Arial, Verdana, sans-serif";
Otherwise, the CSS parser thinks you're looking for a font called "Arial, Verdana, sans-serif", which clearly doesn't exist.
Try removing your "" from the font-family definition:
font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;
Like that. Only put the " around when you have multiple words such as
font-family: "mutiple word font name",tahoma, sans-serif;