simple span/class problem

[wellgahlee]

I must be overlooking something really obvious, but I can't get the span tag to change the text within my <p> tags.

css:
.date {
font: 11px/16px times,georgia,times-new-roman,serif;
font-weight:bold;
color: #000000;
}

html:

<p>

<span class="date">Wednesday, July 4, 2007</span><br>
Presentation/Book Signing <br>
Thomas E. Crew....

I'm sure this is a hiearchy of the css elements problem, but I can't figure out how to fix it. thanks

[londrum]

what's your css on the <p> tag?, and in which order do they come in the css.
it should work as far as i can see, but i'm wondering what it's changing from.
i don't think times-new-roman will do anything though. it needs to be inside quotes. you could rewrite the whole thing like this:

.date {
font: bold 11px/16px times,georgia,"times new roman",serif;
color: #000;
}

[Xapti]

I don't use font short hands too much, so I really don't know too well (I do know it's a BIT tricky though)... but is that a proper short hand version of the font attribute?

perhaps just TRY font-family:blah; font-size:blah; line-height:blah.
Or is NONE of the style info working? which attribute are working, and which are not?

Also if you know what CSS specificity is (if you don't, you can read up), you can make sure that it's not causing any problems from the rest of your code.

[edited by: Xapti at 12:27 am (utc) on June 23, 2007]

[coho75]

Try -

.date {
font: bold 11px/16px times, georgia , "times new roman", serif;
color:bold;
}

Any font that has spaces in the name must have quotes around it. Also, if you don't have the fonts specified installed on your machine, you won't see them.

[coho75]

Err - should be color:#000;