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From: Swifty on 30 Mar 2010 05:41

If the text inside:


.... displays in font Courier New whereas my browser is set to display
monospace text in font Andale Mono, then is that a problem with my
CSS, or my browser?

Text inside <PRE> does use Andale Mono.

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From: dorayme on 30 Mar 2010 06:06

In article <vhh3r5p6d4p90psnd74c3105kt9mq6271v(a)4ax.com>,
Swifty <steve.j.swift(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> If the text inside:
> 
>
> ... displays in font Courier New whereas my browser is set to display
> monospace text in font Andale Mono, then is that a problem with my
> CSS, or my browser?
>

Should be "style" not "syle".

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dorayme

From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 30 Mar 2010 06:11

Swifty wrote:

> If the text inside:
> 
>
> ... displays in font Courier New whereas my browser is set to display
> monospace text in font Andale Mono, then is that a problem with my
> CSS, or my browser?

Yes.

<http://validator.w3.org/>
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>

PointedEars
--
Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on
a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web,
when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee

From: Andreas Prilop on 30 Mar 2010 10:21

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Swifty wrote:

> 
> ... displays in font Courier New whereas my browser is set to display
> monospace text in font Andale Mono,

Why don't you tell us which browser is "my browser"?

For Internet Explorer:
serif = Times New Roman
sans-serif = Arial
monospace = Courier New
http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/temp/serif.html

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In memoriam Alan J. Flavell
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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 30 Mar 2010 12:32

Andreas Prilop wrote:

> Swifty wrote:
>> 
>> ... displays in font Courier New whereas my browser is set to display
>> monospace text in font Andale Mono,
>
> Why don't you tell us which browser is "my browser"?
>
> For Internet Explorer:

*Your* Internet Explorer maybe. Mine:

> serif = Times New Roman
> sans-serif = Arial

Tahoma

> monospace = Courier New

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono(space?)

> http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/temp/serif.html

That does not mean anything. Internet Explorer allows the user to select
at least the "Web page font" (proportional font) and the "Plain text font"
(fixed-width font).

A real way to determine the used font-family in MSHTML is to retrieve the
currentStyle.fontFamily property value of the corresponding DOM object when
there are no document stylesheets present, e.g.

window.alert(document.body.currentStyle.fontFamily);

PointedEars
--
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(This won't prevent people from viewing your source, but no one
will want to steal it.)
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