Hi,
I am very new to HTML, but wonder if we need to add <font> tag in every <td>? Could we just assign one <font> at the beginning of the page "ONCE for all"? I use DreamWeaver which keeps generationg the same <font> all over the place. I just want to clean it out.
thanks.
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If you use deprecated HTML then the font element can not be placed around block elements (such as tables, table data cells, or paragraphs).
Switching to CSS is the way to go for layouts, http://stone.thecoreworlds
It is generally advisable to not specify font-sizes using pixels. Units relative to user preferences are preferred (i.e. em, ex, &) as these are much less likely to render your page unreadable.
You can place the font tag before and the closing tag after the table and it will work with most modern browser's however there are still quiet a few people out there using older browser's a style class would proverably be best. I use css classes when I use php to query a database to print the data in table format quicker to download smaller file less code more compatible and less time consuming
here are a few class examples
classes are good to use because you can change a lot very easy and they allow you to use more than on style basic syntax is:
HtmlElement.ClassId(option
use <table class="ClassId">
*******the first font style
.fontstyle1{
color: #000000;
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana;
font-size: 11px;
}
********the second font style
.fontstyle3{
color: Red;
font-family:Roman;
font-size: 14px;
}
************* the third font style
.fontstyle4{
color:Orange;
font-family:Arial;
font-size: 10px;
}
********* a simple mouse over link color change class set
A.mouseoverRed:Hover{color
A.mouseoverRed:Link{color:
A.mouseoverRed:Visited{col
A.mouseoverRed:Active{colo
more on how to use
usage
<table class="fontstyle4">
<a href="" class="mouseoverRed">
inline
<td style="color:green;font-fa
look here for a great css tutorial:http://www.w3scho
if you have any further questions about the subject just post them.
dorward you are correct hopefully future versions of w3 standard html will support font tags around blocks.
Here is another methode. It applies css just to the contents of the table:
<table border=1 style="FONT-SIZE: large; COLOR: green; FONT-FAMILY: Arial BLack; Font-Wieght: Bold">
<tr><td>
hello goodbye
</td></tr>
</table>
you can repalace the values as you see fit to achieve the effect you are looking for.
FONT-SIZE:
Larger,Smaller,X-Small,XX-
FONT-COLOR:
ANY of the 16 predefined colors by name or the rgb values in the format: #rrggbb
FONT-FAMILY:
any font will do but you should list your fonts by preferance example: Courier New, Courier,Times Roman,Roman.
That way if the user doesn't have the fist font the browser will go down the line of fonts you have specified untile it finds on the user has avilable or untile it gets to the end of the list in wich case it will use the default font wich is usually either arial or roman.
FONT-WEIGHT: BOLD, NORMAL or a number between 100 & 500
Hope This helps sorry for the error in my above post.
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by: thanassisPosted on 2003-04-24 at 06:13:32ID: 8388274
You can use styles
<html>
<head>
<style>
td {color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 11px}
</style>
</head>
<body>
...your tables here...
</body>
</httml>