Comments on: CSS tip, declare your font family once

By: CBloss

CBloss — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:23:06 +0000

Very true. I’m still old style and tend to use table to help format, but if I can, I will avoid them. I’m not very confident in CSS positioning. I forgot (rather stupid of me) about grouping declarations like that. I usually don’t declare anything in the body tag besides background color and margin since all my text is within a table.

By: Ian Hoar

Ian Hoar — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:33:04 +0000

Hi CBloss, unless I’m coding emails or creating table based data I try to avoid using tables. The font should inherit through out the page, although I know it does not in some mail clients and possibly IE. As you mentioned you can style the table tag to be sure. A simple way to still only declare the font once would be to declare these attributes for both body and td elements like so.

body, td {
	font-family:Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
	font-size:12px;
	line-height:130%;
	color:#333333;
}

By: CBloss

CBloss — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:25:49 +0000

Oh so true. This should go with table tags too. Any font-family declared in the body tag doesn’t follow through to the table tags.