Standard browser fonts

[zoobie]

I need to know what standart fonts come with major browsers. When I updated IE to 6, I chose extra fonts and now forget what came standard...heh heh. Thanks :D

[Nightfire]

arial,
verdana,
tahoma,
tnr

They're the most used standard fonts

[zoobie]

Hmm...thought there were more than just 4...

Tahoma and verdana are just about the same. :rolleyes:

[ronaldb66]

...
helvetica (Mac!),
times (oh, right, that's what you meant by tnr... :o),
courier,
...

[Roy Sinclair]

Because there really is no "standard" fonts that you can expect all machines to have the CSS standards added some generic font families that the browser should render using the default font of the appropriate type.

So your style sheet can contain a font specification like this:

font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;

A browser seeing that would look first for a font named Verdana and failing to find that it would look for Arial and if it didn't find Arial it would use it's default sans-serif font. This gives you a way to ensure you get the fonts that look best as long as they're present but get the right kind of font even if the ones you know of aren't present.

See the W3C (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#generic-font-families) documentation for a more complete explanation.

[zoobie]

Thanks

Let's say for sake of argument it doesn't have any I specify...What does it default to? Or is that up to the OS?

Thanks again :D

[ronaldb66]

The standard font specified somewhere in the browser's preferences, or properties, or options or what have you (IE: "Tools"- "Internet Options..." - "General" tab - "Fonts..." button).

[Nightfire]

Usually defaults to tnr