css font-face...

if i set up a style like the following...

and thefontname was in a directory on my website, would would I access that font to place in the style tags to apply to my site if the visitor does not have the font?

You got a few things wrong there...

When working with styles, you can set the font-family property. This is a comma seperated list of fonts or families you want. The first valid one is kept. Generally, you go from most specific, to most generic. So, you could have something like this:

What I've done is created a class (defined by the period) called 'subhead'. Any element with that class will use the specified font. If the font, 'SomeObscureFont' can not be found, it will look for 'Helvetica'. If not, it looks for 'Arial'. Finally is the 'sans-serif' which is not a font name, but a font family (of which Helvetica and Arial are members of). If none of the specific fonts can be found, the element will be rendered in whatever sans-serif type font the system has set as default.

To use the style, you need to assign the class to an object. We can even drop the <font> tags entirely, since they're depreciated. You can assign a class to any element, from a <p>, to a <div>, to a <td>, or anything else.

Applying the font to a paragraph is as simple as:

even with CSS I would be unable to use a font on my site effectively unless the visitor has that font as well?

even so.. thanks

Is this what you're looking for?

The font import function is almost entirely unsupported right now.

yup,
and it has been removed in css2.1
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/changes.html#q23

so pretty much using the default settings would work the best... okay.. thanks again everyone

hi jskid,
i can see that know one got what you mean't, well here is the piece of advice you're looking for.

No you can't use a font that the visitor doesn't have installed on his pc.
So even if you have the font on your web directory, it won't help, the only difference it makes is on your pc. You would see the fonts as it is because you have the font installed.

there are two ways round this problem.

1. If the font you want to use is just for headers on your page, then try to make a gif image containing the text and use it on your site.
2. If you need to use this font for the entire content, then the only thing you have to do, is make a script that tells the visitor that you are using a special type of font and for them to view the page as it is supposed to be they should have the font installed. If they want to download it, then they'll have to click ok and the font would be downloaded on to there pc, but they should in turn install the font.

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i too was unsure if anyone really understood my question at first, but eventually as the forum always does, it did..

thank you for your input though... i already have imaegs as header/footer for my page, although that leads to too many images on a page make slow loading for visitors, and less page views for the impatient ones (which I'm sure is everyone)..

i think that I will only use images for logos etc... special paragraph heads.. and the such, for my sites will have pics on them, so the extra pics will only slow the process more, unless somebody here can point me towards "preloaded images" if possible...