CSS, Headings (H1, H2...), font-weight, WinXP

font-weight bolder not working under WinXP

[texeter]

Under Windows XP Pro using IE6.0 or Opera7 or Mozilla I am unable to make "font-weight: bolder" work when used with the heading tags (H1, H2 etc). "Font-weight: bolder" does work when used with the <p> tag.

Other attributes such as "color" and "font-size" work with no problems.

"font-weight: bolder" works under Win98SE with IE5.5 and IE6.0 with both the <p> and the <h1> tags.

I have verified this both on my own computer in another partition and on the office computers where there is a mix of Win98SE and WinXP-Pro computers.

I have set up two pages on my test site: one using "font-weight: bolder" and the other using "font-weight: lighter":

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Anyone out there got any ideas?

Thanks.

[grahamstewart]

Consider it more of a style 'hint' than anything else.

What actually happens when you specify font-weight:bolder will depend not only on the browser, but on which font you are using and whether a 'bolder' version of that font is available on your system.

Much of the time you will just end up with a bold font.