[WEB4LIB] Setting Fonts in Netscape

[Andrew Mutch]

Lynne,

The proper way to do this is with cascading stylesheets [CSS].  Going this
route saves you the problem of adding in those FONT tags and even better,
when the boss decides that Verdana or Tahoma is the new "font of the day",
you only have to change one file to change all your pages.  Pretty cool,
right?  Of course, the catch is that:

1)  Netscape 4.x doesn't always handle CSS properly.

2)  Older browsers don't support CSS well, if at all.

But, it's really time for web page designers to move onward and upward
[myself included].

If the boss says otherwise, tell them that "Thomas Downling says...."

Andrew Mutch
Lirbrary Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

"L. E. Puckett" wrote:

> Hello, everyone!
> Can one of the HTML gurus out there tell me if there is a way to set a
> base font in Netscape? I know this is not a wonderful idea, but the boss
> wants everything in Arial, so I'm not left with much choice. I use
> Wordpad or Front Page for editing, if it matters.
>
> The problem is, as far as I can tell, Netscape requires a FONT tag in
> every cell of a table (all TD tags). With IE, you can set a font face
> with the BASEFONT tag, or at the beginning of each table (once) and it
> keeps going until closed.
>
> This is the first time I've ever found something IE did better than
> Netscape, & I'd appreciate not having to go back & put font tags in all
> over the place just so Netscape will show up properly, if I can avoid
> it.
> Web page is at www.billings.lib.mt.us & like all others is under
> permanent construction.
> Grateful for any help,
> Lynne
> --
> L.E. Puckett
> Parmly Billings Library
> 510 North Broadway
> Billings,  MT  59101