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Part III: Taking Precise Control Over Web Pages and Styles
The value of the font property is a list of any values that correspond to the
various font properties:
✓ The following values must be defined in the following order although
they don’t have to be consecutive:
• font-size (required)
• line-height (optional)
• font-family (required)
The font-family value list must end with a semicolon.
Use commas to separate multiple font family names. For example, you
can use the following style declaration to create a specific style for paragraph
text that specifies font-size, line-height, and font-family in that
(required) order:
p {font: 1.5em bold 150% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
✓ The following values are optional and may occur in any order within the
declaration. Individual values are separated by spaces:
• font-style
• font-variant
• font-weight
For example, you can use the following style declaration to create a specific
style for a first-level heading that mixes the optional values in among the
required ones (font-style and font-weight before line-height and font-family in
this case, with font-size and font-variant omitted):
h1 {font: italic bold 150% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}