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Old December 12th, 2003, 02:11 AM
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CSS Generic Font
I'm getting a warning when validating a stylesheet, and I can't figure out why.
The sheet validates, but it gives one warning that says:
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Line : 0 font-family: You are encouraged to offer a generic family as a last alternative


What confuses me is that I already have.
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font-family : Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;

On the w3 site they list sans-serif as a generic font. I've never had a problem using it before. Am I missing something?
Here's my stylesheet:
http://www.columbiamistalpacas.com/..._stylesheet.css

And a link to the w3 validation results
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/...istalpacas.com/
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Old December 12th, 2003, 02:13 AM
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In your style sheet is should be somethng like this:
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font: normal 0.8em "Tahoma", Arial, sans-serif;


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Why? What's the difference and what does the normal 0.8em mean? Emphasis? 8 tenths of bold?
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font-family is depreciated..

em is a font size..http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&star...nts.html&e=7417
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font-family is depreciated..


where did you read that?
font-family is still in css2.1
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#font-family-prop
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Oops, I thought you weren't supposed to use it
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I've tried different variations, changed the fonts specified to: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif (lifted from another stylesheet that validates)
Added quotes, added sizes. And still the same warning. What am I missing here?
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Code:
#LeftMenu a {
        ....
	font-family:Arial;
        ....
}


you haven't supplied with a generic class here,
just add sans-serif after arial.
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Thanks. That did it.
Makes sense, it was just throwing me off because it was referencing the Body
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