Setting the default font with CSS

default font using CSS

[irishaff]

Hi,

Im quite new to CSS , I was wondering if its possible to set a default font using CSS. Then not specify the font in each table, or insert a style tag.

The reason I want to is as follows.
1. I use dreamweaver
2. I am using a lot of tables.
3. When I insert the </h1> tag etc it sometimes gets highlighted in yellow ( I think I am putting it in the correct place and the markup works as expected ).
4. Somtimes these unwanted yellow markers disturb my tables, and send the page nuts.

Ok, sounded like an amatuer there, but then again,, Iam .

David

[ukgimp]

body {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

I think this may be what you are after.

[DrDoc]

Or, even better, since some browsers get inheritance wrong:

* {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

[drbrain]

The browsers that get inheritance wrong are those that don't have the doctype-switch, or those that do have the doctype switch and are in quirks-mode.

Be sure to set your doctype to a 'strict mode' to get inheritance to work (for IE6, Mozilla-based, Opera, Safari, etc.)

[aevea]

The yellow highlighting is dreamweaver trying to tell you that either your end tags don't have a start tag or your nesting is messed up.

Adam