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mackenga · May 2nd, 2005, 12:30 PM

The old-school method (probably officially deprecated now) is with the FONT tag:

<FONT face="Helvetica,Arial">
 <H2>Old School Font Switch</H2>
</FONT>

Just for an alternative view. It's worth bearing in mind that you should list more than one font family, separated with commas; not all systems have all fonts and if you specify a font that the user's browser doesn't have, it'll just use the default. If you have provided a list, the browser will use the first font in the list that it has available. So for a Sans Serif font, you could do:

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<P style="font-family: Sans, Helvetica, Arial">foo</P>

Sans takes care of a lot of systems. It's a rare Mac that doesn't have Helvetica, and Windows machines will manage with Arial if they don't have the other two.

May 2nd, 2005, 12:30 PM	#4
mackenga Professional Programmer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 328 Rep Power: 4	The old-school method (probably officially deprecated now) is with the FONT tag: (Toggle Plain Text) <FONT face="Helvetica,Arial"> <H2>Old School Font Switch</H2> </FONT> <FONT face="Helvetica,Arial"> <H2>Old School Font Switch</H2> </FONT> Just for an alternative view. It's worth bearing in mind that you should list more than one font family, separated with commas; not all systems have all fonts and if you specify a font that the user's browser doesn't have, it'll just use the default. If you have provided a list, the browser will use the first font in the list that it has available. So for a Sans Serif font, you could do: (Toggle Plain Text) <P style="font-family: Sans, Helvetica, Arial">foo</P> <P style="font-family: Sans, Helvetica, Arial">foo</P> Sans takes care of a lot of systems. It's a rare Mac that doesn't have Helvetica, and Windows machines will manage with Arial if they don't have the other two.