[thelist] CSS Question - Simple

[John.Brooking at NA.SAPPI.COM]

Rob asks:
> Is saying: 
>
> body {
> 	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
> 	font-size: 12px;
> }
>
> td {
>	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
>	font-size: 12px;
> }
>
> th {
>	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
>	font-size: 12px;
> }
>
> the same as...
>
> body th td {
>	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
>	font-size: 12px;
>}

No. The first three say "Here's the style for the BODY tag", "Here's the
style for all TD tags", and "Here's the style for all TH tags". The last one
says "Here's the style for a TD tag *inside a* TH tag *inside a* BODY tag.
So the last rule won't apply unless you have a TH inside a TD directly
inside a BODY, which of course is bad HTML.

What you probably are thinking of is:

   body, th, td {    # Note use of commas
      font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
      font-size: 12px;
   }

which *is* the same as the first three, and which I would recommend in this
case.

- John
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