Question

I am putting together a website in codeIgniter, but I’m having some trouble with the CSS

The below code is giving me a serif font – I know the stylesheet’s properly linked because the text fits all the other parameters, and changes when I unlink it.

span.navbig {
    font-size: 36pt;
    font-family: Gill Sans / Gill Sans MT, sans-serif;
    letter-spacing: -1.5pt;
    text-decoration: none;   
}

What am I not seeing here?

Thanks

Answer 1

Separate thefont types in your font-family declaration different, something like this:

font-family: "Gill Sans", "Gill Sans MT", sans-serif;

Here’s some easy reference:

Note: Separate each value with a comma.

Note: If a font name contains white-space, it must be quoted.
Single quotes must be used when using the “style” attribute in HTML.

And here’s the W3C recommendation:

Font family names must either be given quoted as strings, or unquoted
as a sequence of one or more identifiers. This means most punctuation
characters and digits at the start of each token must be escaped in
unquoted font family names.