Never had this problem. This may seem obvious, but have you checked
carefully the syntax of the stylesheet? Most odd behaviour that I've
noticed with stylesheets usually results from a missing ; or : or these
delimeters in the wrong places. Different browsers, as one might expect
:-(, seem to handle stylesheet errors in different ways.
Regarding specifying fonts
font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
and
font-family: "times new roman", "times roman", times, serif;
are pretty safe "universal" settings.
Rick
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Sheila Thomas wrote:
> I am puzzled, and seeking enlightenment.
> We have recently started using Cascading Style Sheets for our smaller
> websites. I was under the impression that the most generic font-family
> specifications were to call for a generic 'serif' or 'sans-serif'.
> However, although this works just fine on the PCs in this office, whether in
> MSIE5/6, Netscape4/6 or Mozilla, we have an external user, with some flavour
> of MSIE, who can see the sans serif font, but not the serif. I've been asked
> to modify the CSS to specify fonts by name to overcome this problem, which
> is OK as long as I know what fonts his machine has access to, but I'd still
> like to know why the generic default fails.
> Has anyone met this sort of problem?
> --
> Sheila Thomas [log in to unmask]
> Web Manager at TWI
> http://www.twi.co.uk
>
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