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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Adding a New Web Page Write the CSS

Posted by Kane Sillifant
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Kane Sillifant
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 1,517 Points

What is Arial in " " marks in the CSS file?

In the coding the lady types

body { font-family: "Arial; }

just curious as to why she puts arial in quotation marks?

1 Answer

Allan Moreno
Allan Moreno
279 Points
Allan Moreno
Allan Moreno
279 Points

Font family names containing whitespace or punctuation characters should be quoted. However "Arial" family name does not contain white spaces or punctuation characters, so it must have been quoted out of habit. That's still valid. Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-family#Values