applying css to font in table - css

Question

I'd like to know where i have gone wrong, i want to apply font verdana to "to change this font to verdana."
I have removed contend from other table rows to make the code appear clearer. I have set the css styling to this section but when uploading the font does not change at all.
Code is:
<style type="text/css">
#form1 tbody tr td {
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
}
</style>
<table width="500" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<tr>
<form action="upload_ac.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form1" id="form1">
<tr>
<td><strong>Title 1</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To Change this font to verdana.<br>
<br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center"> </td>
</tr>
</form>
<tr>
<td>
<!-- start here-->
<form action="http://www./cookie5payment/freecontact2formprocess.php" method="post">
<table class="freecontact2form" border="0" width="400px">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span> <br /> <br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><br></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<br>
<td valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center" colspan="2"><br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br /></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</form>
<!-- end here -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</tr>

Answer 1

Your code is not working as expected because you use the identifier #form1 to target the table inside that form, but you start the table outside the form so the css selector can not find it. Change the order of your html as follows (i.e. switch the form and table tag)
<form action="upload_ac.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form1 id="form1">
<table width="500" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#ffffff">
Here is a fiddle to illustrate this