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FP2003 Cascading font "inheritance" - 10/13/2005 14:02:20
With respect to coding external style sheets in FP 2003, using the Styles dialog, note well:
Seems that applying a "normal" font weight actually writes the style code WITHOUT any weight attribute AT ALL, like this:
{ font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: -1.1pt; color: #000066; line-height: 1.2; margin-top:0; margin-bottom: 6; text-align:left; "XXXXXX" }
The "XXXXX" is where the weight would go, if FP put it there.
Whereas, if you apply a weight or characteristic such as "bold," the code looks like this:
{ font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 1pt; color: #663300; line-height: 1; margin-top:0; margin-bottom: 3; text-align:left; font-weight:bold }
As you can see, the bold attribute is specifically embedded in the code.
And therefore, whenever the explicitly embedded style code precedes a code (in your text) that is NOT explicitly embedded, the characteristic of the embedded code will still apply. Thus, the bolding of a header, for example, will contaminate body text that follows. The solution is to hand code the normal attribute, like this:
{ font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: -1.1pt; color: #000066; line-height: 1.2; margin-top:0; margin-bottom: 6; text-align:left; font-weight:normal }
This will restore everything to, uh, well...."normal."
Hope this helps anybody.
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RE: FP2003 Cascading font "inheritance" - 10/13/2005 14:33:55
Are you talking about a linked external stylesheet, or an embedded one (in the head) or inline style? Of course in line style will take precedence- that is a known. If you used <h> tags and/or classes this problem woud not arise.
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RE: FP2003 Cascading font "inheritance" - 10/31/2005 6:00:05
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ORIGINAL: caz
Are you talking about a linked external stylesheet, or an embedded one (in the head) or inline style? Of course in line style will take precedence- that is a known. If you used <h> tags and/or classes this problem woud not arise.
I'm referring to external style sheets, and situations in which there are neither inline nor embedded styles competing with the external ones. What prompted me to try explicitly coding for a "normal" font weight was the fact that I could find no inline/embedded styles to account for the persistence of the bold attribute. The simple fact was (so I say) that coding the font as normal on the external sheet immediately fixed the problem.
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RE: FP2003 Cascading font "inheritance" - 10/31/2005 7:07:45
Yes, JB, FP does see it that way and you wonder why the programmer's didn't anticipate the effect....oh, well! Another thing: it appears to matter, in some cases, whether or not a style attribute (or whatever its called) is separated from -or right up against- the colon. FP puts a separation between the colon and the attribute (font-weight: normal, for example) and it seems to be OK, except sometimes its NOT, and I get rid of that space and things work. They ask me why I drink.
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RE: FP2003 Cascading font "inheritance" - 10/31/2005 7:45:11
try topstyle lite (free) and use this for reference. btw headers in your example are usually rendered by browsers as bold by default anyway ;)
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RE: FP2003 Cascading font "inheritance" - 10/31/2005 8:12:10
Gotcha, Dave...I forgot to mention that all the styles involved were of my own creation (Userstyles) and not any of the standard tags. I'll scope your topstyle and "this." Thanks very much. -JS
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