CSS font Property
Description
The font
property is shorthand that allows you to do one of two things: you can either set up six of the most mature font properties in one line, or you can set one of a choice of keywords to adopt a system font setting.
- Initial value
- See individual properties
- Applies to
- All elements
- Inherited
- Yes
- Media
- Visual
- Computed value
- See individual properties
- Animatable
- See individual properties
- CSS Version
- CSS1, CSS2, CSS3
- JavaScript syntax
- object.style.font
Syntax
font: [ [ <font-style> || <font-variant> || <font-weight> || <font-stretch> ]? <font-size> [ / <line-height> ]? <font-family> ] | caption | icon | menu | message-box | small-caption | status-bar
Values
- <font-style>See the font-style CSS property for values.
- <font-variant>See the font-variant CSS property for values.
- <font-weight>See the font-weight CSS property for values.
- <font-size>See the font-size CSS property for values.
- <font-family>See the font-family CSS property for values.
Example
<p class="test">font: italic small-caps bold 12px / 30px courier; background-color: orange;</p>
<p class="test2">font: caption;</p>
<p class="test3">font: icon; </p>
<p class="test4">font: menu; </p>
<p class="test5">font: message-box; </p>
<p class="test6">font: small-caption;</p>
<p class="test7"> font: status-bar;</p>
.test {
font: italic small-caps bold 12px / 30px courier;
background-color: orange;
}
.test2 {
font: caption;
}
.test3 {
font: icon;
}
.test4 {
font: menu;
}
.test5 {
font: message-box;
}
.test6 {
font: small-caption;
}
.test7 {
font: status-bar;
}
Give it a Try
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Browser Support
Desktop | |||||
3 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 3.5 | 1 |
Tablets / Mobile | |||||
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≤37 | 18 | 4 | Yes | 1 | Yes |
Last updated by CSSPortal on: 1st November 2019
CSS Properties
- align-content
- align-items
- align-self
- all
- animation
- animation-delay
- animation-direction
- animation-duration
- animation-fill-mode
- animation-iteration-count
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