When none of the specified fonts can be selected. Preserving some of the style sheet author's intent in the worst case Generic font families are a fallback mechanism, a means of Not consider these keywords as matching the '' The keywords 'initial' and 'default' are reserved forįuture use and must also be quoted when used as font names. 'cursive') must be quoted to prevent confusion with the keywords with Value ('inherit', 'serif', 'sans-serif', 'monospace', 'fantasy', and Unlike most other CSS properties, component values are separatedīy a comma to indicate that they are alternatives:īody įont family names that happen to be the same as a keyword
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Otherwise the values must be matched exactly or font-style will fail. Labeled with the CSS keyword 'italic' (preferred) or 'oblique'. Will be satisfied if there is either a face in the UA's font database The per-property matching rules from (2) above are as follows: The CSS 2.1 properties for each character.) (The above algorithm can be optimized to avoid having to revisit The UA should mapĮach character for which it has no suitable font to a visible symbolĬhosen by the UA, preferably a "missing character" glyph from one of the Means to determine a suitable font for that character. If a particularĬharacter cannot be displayed using this font, then the UA may use other Match that can be obtained within the default font. UA-dependent default 'font-family' and repeat step 2, using the best