Don't understand warning

[Ben Rogers]

Line : 0 font-family: You are encouraged to offer a generic family as a last alternative

How could I have a font-family on line zero???

[buntine]

I once had the same problem.. I think it has either got to do with a bug in the validator.. Or, you have specified a non-standard font in one of your font-family statements.

[Ben Rogers]

Hm. I offered sans-serif as a final alternative for every font-family though....

[buntine]

Did u write it as 'sans-serif' ?? The dash character may have something to do with your problems..

[Ben Rogers]

aren't you supposed to?

[buntine]

I dont know.. CSS might interpret the - character as being part of an identifier..

Try removing sans-serif and re-validate the page..

[Ben Rogers]

it's already valid, and sans-serif is a default font.

[buntine]

But your first post ststed that it was NOT valid... Remember, i am helping you. If you dont want advice, you should not post here.

[Ben Rogers]

I know that, I'm just being blunt cuz I don't feel like typing much right now, sorry if i come off as rude. What I mean is the CSS is valid, what I posted is a warning. And the sans-serif is part of W3 specs i think.

[buntine]

Its ok... I dont know why it does it then. I suppose its just a bug in the validator.

[pyro]

I bet you that we could help you better if we could see the CSS file you are talking about...

[ray326]

Originally posted by omega
Line : 0 font-family: You are encouraged to offer a generic family as a last alternative

How could I have a font-family on line zero??? Hard to say without seeing the sheet that got the warning but sans-serif IS a generic family. You didn't quote it did you?

[Ben Rogers]

Of course.
http://projep.t35.com/bg/default.css

[pyro]

I don't see a default font-family:

font-family: arial black,"arial black", fantasy;

Also, why do you have "arial black" defined twice? Remove the first one, as you want quotes around the font name, if it has spaces.

[ray326]

Ooooo. You're not being truthful with us. You have several font-family lines ending with 'dotum' that have no generic font family specified.

Pyro, isn't 'fantasy' a generic?

[Ben Rogers]

ok i fixed it. that style rule is back when i used text in the h1. looong time ago.

still get the warning. and i dint no that. i put sans-serif in all the fon-family rules without a generic

[buntine]

Hm. I offered sans-serif as a final alternative for every font-family though....


Huh? Thats not what your file shows..

[Ben Rogers]

OK, warning gone. I put in the sans-serif. I'm somewhat of an idiot at times lol

[pyro]

Doh. Yep, it is... Must have been a differnet declaration then...

[Ben Rogers]

Yep. Thanks everyone... heh now all that I have left is valid XHTML Strict. Damn t35, putting <script> after the </html> tag...

[fredmv]

Originally posted by ray326
isn't 'fantasy' a generic? Should be; I believe it's treated as sans-serif.

[Ben Rogers]

Originally posted by fredmv
Should be; I believe it's treated as sans-serif.

Nope. On my PC it's cursive on IE, papyrus on Mozilla. But I set it as papyrus, so yeah. sans-serif is tahoma or verdana.