[thelist] CSS problems

[Chris Williams]

Tony,

There are a LOT of syntax problems with your style sheet.  You cannot 
declare fonts as you have in the example below:

.newsheading {font: bold 14pt Times New Roman, Times, serif; 
text-decoration: none; color: #003366;}

Font properties have to be declared separately; there is no catch-all 
"font" property.  To achieve what you are after in the above declaration it 
should be:

.newsheading
{font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 14pt;
text-decoration: none;
color: #003366;}

Font names that contain more than one word need to be placed in quotes in 
order to be read properly.  In this case, I'm not sure why you would 
necessarily bother declaring those fonts as I believe they are the default 
on most browsers, but if you're going to do it, that's the correct syntax 
for it.

Also, you have created about 50 separate classes in your stylesheet--all 
for the P tag--but in your HTML you reference them in your A and SPAN 
tags.  That's probably not going to give you the results you 
want.   Finally, you have throughout your stylesheet declared font sizes in 
both points and pixels.  This is not a very good idea, because browsers are 
not very good at rendering font sizes predictably under the best of 
circumstances, and giving them two separate units of measure which render 
very differently from one browser/one platform to another is a recipe for a 
pretty disastrous layout.    If I were going to choose,  I would recommend 
that you use pixels, because they seem to circumvent the pesky differences 
between PCs and Macs better.

I guess there's theoretically an article in this, but you can really find 
information about style sheets everywhere.  Hope this helps.

Chris Williams