Question

No matter what I do, the label tags will not be styled by my CSS.

CSS:

label {
        font-family: 'Lucida Grande';
    }

HTML:

<div class="contact-form">
            <form action="post">
                <label for="name">Name:<input type="text" id="name" class="text" /></label>
                <label for="email">Email:<input type="text" id="email" class="text" /></label>
                <label for="message">Message:<textarea id="message"></textarea></label>
                <input type="submit" class="submit" value="Send Message" />
            </form>
        </div>

Guess what? NOT LUCIDA GRANDE.

In action here: http://christianselig.com/contact.html

Answer 1

Perhaps its because reset.css is overriding style.css?

<!-- Stylesheets -->
<link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />
<link href="css/reset.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />

The label selector is included on line 8 of this block in reset.css:

html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td,
article, aside, canvas, details, embed, 
figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup, 
menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary,
time, mark, audio, video {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0; 
    border: 0;
    font-size: 100%;
    font: inherit; 
    vertical-align: baseline;
}