CSS Text Attributes
Just wondering how one is supposed to write CSS to tell the actual body text to be a certain way. I've been using this stuff for quite a while but, for some reason, the text part doesn't seem to be working right unless I use something like the following before the actual text:
p {font-family: Helvetica; color: #000033; font-size: 8px;}
Would one of the following be the right way to do this?
(1). a {font-family: Helvetica; color: #000033; font-size: 8px;}
(2). a: {font-family: Helvetica; color: #000033; font-size: 8px;}
OR, do I have to go in the actual body tag and do something like what's shown below?
This is the format I want to use, if possible:
I checked back through several of the tutorials and it seems they jump right into the a:link, a:active, etc. and don't really cover the main body text color . . . unless I missed it somewhere.
Thanks in advance.
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 08:31 — 6th September 2003.
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body {color:red; font-size:normal}
p {} is a selector for all tags . Similarly, body {} is a selector for all tags (although there should be only one).
m3rajk posted this at 16:40 — 6th September 2003.
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if you're doing universal tags, you do them in the head, and a general rule of thumb is
<script langueas="text/css">
<!-- comment it out for non-css browsers
/* css stuff */
-->
</script>
you can also do it so it does nesting... ie:
ol li { attributes}
ol ol li {different attributes}
and it will differentiate
POSIX. because a stable os that doesn't have memory leaks and isn't buggy is always good.
fiesty_01 posted this at 23:35 — 6th September 2003.
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Okay, that does make sense. Thanks Abhishek!
To m3rajk: Of course you're right, but I just got a bit lazy (or, in a hurry) on my post and left out all that other stuff. Thanks for making sure I knew about it, though.
m3rajk posted this at 00:21 — 7th September 2003.
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np. always better to err on the side of caution when someone's new to tsomething.. and sometimes when they aren't as well. it's normally the small things people overloook later.
POSIX. because a stable os that doesn't have memory leaks and isn't buggy is always good.
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