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Web Development - Fonts

Can I Use a List of Fonts From Which Browsers May Choose?

Since it is highly unlikely that everyone else will have the fonts you have, you can put, in your FONT tag, code to let browsers choose from a list of given fonts. For example, if you use Arial in your webpage, but you know that Helvetica or Geneva would be ok, you can just create a comma-separated list of fonts that you would like the page to use. Use your primary font choice first, then provide secondary choices.

For this example, we would use:

<FONT FACE="arial,helvetica,geneva">

When you want to stop using one of these fonts, again, just use this tag:

</FONT>.

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