What is the font type used by IE menus?

[jovialjonny]

Hey,
I am desigining some custom menus and I am trying to make them look similar to the bar on internet explorer (The File, Edit...etc. menu).

Thing is I am looking for a decent font to use and I can't figure out what exactly is used in IE. Does anyone know or does anyone know where I can find a good online listing of font-families?

[Jick]

Well I'm pretty sure that in WinXP they use "Tahoma". I'm not to sure in other versions though! :)

[Charles]

The fonts used by the system will depend upon the users preference but you can access those preferences by specifying system fonts. See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#propdef-font.