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Font/Changes not wanted Bill 02-05-2008
Posted by Bill on February 5, 2008, 8:36 pm
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I'm making minor changes to our organization website. Someone else set
this up and I just want to add text to an existing web page.

When I add an Unordered List, the font changes, possibly from Arial to
Times, it gets larger and the color changes. I mean the items in the
list are a different font and color from the paragraph before it. I'm
not adding any HTML code that changes the font or color. There's no
code in the paragraph or list that changes the font or color.

QUESTION: Why is the font and color changing?

Could it be style sheets? Is there a code, a category for style sheets
for lists? I can't find any code for this.

If you'd like to look at the web page, it's at:
http://www.edenir.org/profile_frameset.html

Thank you,
Bill

Posted by rf on February 5, 2008, 9:00 pm
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> I'm making minor changes to our organization website. Someone else set
> this up and I just want to add text to an existing web page.
>
> When I add an Unordered List, the font changes, possibly from Arial to
> Times, it gets larger and the color changes. I mean the items in the
> list are a different font and color from the paragraph before it. I'm
> not adding any HTML code that changes the font or color. There's no
> code in the paragraph or list that changes the font or color.
>
> QUESTION: Why is the font and color changing?

Because the original author only specified font-family for <p> elements, not
<ul> elements.\

Move the font-family to the <body> element.

--
Richard.



Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on February 5, 2008, 9:10 pm
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Bill wrote:

> I'm making minor changes to our organization website. Someone else set
> this up and I just want to add text to an existing web page.
>
> When I add an Unordered List, the font changes, possibly from Arial
> to Times, it gets larger and the color changes. I mean the items in
> the list are a different font and color from the paragraph before it.
> I'm not adding any HTML code that changes the font or color. There's
> no code in the paragraph or list that changes the font or color.
>
> QUESTION: Why is the font and color changing?

The list is the standard font and color, inherited from <body>.

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#336699" link="#336699" vlink="#336699"
alink="#336699">

> Could it be style sheets? Is there a code, a category for style
> sheets for lists? I can't find any code for this.

The rest of the text - the paragraphs - have a different style set in
the internal styles:

p
{
COLOR: #666666;
FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
FONT-SIZE: 9pt;
FONT-WEIGHT: normal;
LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt;
}

> If you'd like to look at the web page, it's at:
> http://www.edenir.org/profile_frameset.html

Actually, you mean:
http://www.edenir.org/profile.html

You should remove the HTML comment marks from within the styles.

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-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Posted by Harlan Messinger on February 5, 2008, 9:29 pm
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Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> Bill wrote:
>
>> I'm making minor changes to our organization website. Someone else set
>> this up and I just want to add text to an existing web page.
>>
>> When I add an Unordered List, the font changes, possibly from Arial
>> to Times, it gets larger and the color changes. I mean the items in
>> the list are a different font and color from the paragraph before it.
>> I'm not adding any HTML code that changes the font or color. There's
>> no code in the paragraph or list that changes the font or color.
>>
>> QUESTION: Why is the font and color changing?
>
> The list is the standard font and color, inherited from <body>.
>
> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#336699" link="#336699" vlink="#336699"
> alink="#336699">

That's funny--I never knew that the body element had a text attribute in
any version of HTML. I recall fgcolor.

Posted by rf on February 5, 2008, 10:29 pm
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> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> Bill wrote:

>> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#336699" link="#336699" vlink="#336699"
>> alink="#336699">

> That's funny--I never knew that the body element had a text attribute in
> any version of HTML. I recall fgcolor.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#adef-text

No fgcolor. You thinking of bgcolor?

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Richard.



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