font-family

what does the 'Helvetica Neue' or "Blah blah" mean.

ex:

font-family: 'helvetica neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

why do they use ' ' and " "

try it

yeah no duh it does absolutely nothing. im wondering if its for browser support

The quotes are for multi-word font names, i. e. names with spaces in them, to denote that it’s one string. Don’t know if it hurts to leave the quotes but it’s better practice, I guess, since that’s how it’s done in other programming languages, too.

Oooh, I've always thought that quotes tells the browser to use this as its main font and if it doesn't exist, use the alternatives.

Oooh, I've always thought that quotes tells the browser to use this as its main font and if it doesn't exist, use the alternatives.

No; precedence comes by ordinal position in the list.

No; precedence comes by ordinal position in the list.

Oh, learn something new everyday.