font-style doesn't seem to work?

[1DMF]

What would be causing font-style to not work?

I've tried italic & oblique nothing changes?

thanks,
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[feherke]

Hi

Maybe the file of italic version for that font is not installed ?

More details may help :
[ul]
[li]Regular font or web font ?[/li]
[li]On one specific machine or on any machine ?[/li]
[li]In one specific browser or in any browser ?[/li]
[/ul]


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[1DMF]

The font is defined as follows

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

So i beleive the font being displayed is Verdana, which i thought was a web safe font?

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[feherke]

Hi

Well, it is indeed quite widespread, but there is no way to guarantee its presence.

Beside that, I met Windows systems where the font database/registry/whatever was broken and the application was unable to access some fonts or variants. That is why I asked those questions.

From the other side, are you sure there is no syntax error just before that rule in your CSS file ?

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[1DMF]

Green bill of health from W3V!

I have Win7 Professional with Office 2010 Pro & Adobe CS2 installed, so shouldn't have any fonts missing, in fact I should have a shed load more than normal?

Any other ideas?

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[MakeItSo]

May sound banal but: how do you apply said "font-style"?
Maybe it's a simple tagging error.

Or do you have a stylesheet that might override styles?

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[1DMF]

I have the one CSS file and i have the following rule...

ul.qbox li {
    padding:5px;
    margin-left:20px;  
    }

If i added

border:1px solid #000;

the border appears, but including

font-style:italic;

it doesn't show as italic?

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[MakeItSo]

Check if there is a semi-colon missing before this line.

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[1DMF]

W3Validator says all is OK and I did a check in Firefox error console also, no errors!

I think i need to check when I get home as feherke could be onto something about my fonts being screwed!

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[feherke]

Hi

One more thing to check is the [tt]font[/tt] shorthand. For example if later you set [tt]font: 14pt;[/tt], that will also set [tt]font-style[/tt] to the default.


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[1DMF]

nope all i use is font-xxxx so if I want to change size i always use font-size: 1.4em; for example

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[vacunita]

Perhaps the effect is to subtle to notice?

What does the HTML look like? Do you ave maybe a link or a span in the list item that may be interfering with the italic style?>

What browser are you seeing this in?



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[1DMF]

here is the markup..

            <ul class="qbox">
                <li><b class="red">Experienced mortgage advisers looking for the next step</b> - xxxxxxx Edited text for demo purposes..</li>
                <li><b class="red">Some experience &amp; full CeMAP but not ready to 'go it alone'</b> - xxxxxxx Edited text for demo purposes.</li>
                <li><b class="red">CeMAP but little or no mortgage selling experience</b> - xxxxxxx Edited text for demo purposes.</li>
            </ul>

nothing unusual that i can see?

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[MakeItSo]

I made test htm and css files from your examples (css snippet + this little htm snippet) and it works fine for me!

There must be more to it.
A non-italic setting for a higher level, perhaps for the containing DIV section?

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[vacunita]

Me too, both the red text in the <b> tag and the text outside are italicized.

Are you setting anything else on the <b> with the "red" class other than color?

Better yet would be to provide a link to the page in question. Using any debugger such as Firebug, or Element Inspector may reveal any conflict in your CSS.

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[1DMF]

I have not applied a font-style anywhere in the CSS apart from the one I have shown.

No Phil , just red!

here is the URL.....

[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.homeloanpartnership.com/new/da_firms.asp[/URL]

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[feherke]

Hi

Well, all ul.qbox li text is italic here, in FireFox, Opera and Chrome on Linux.


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[1DMF]

I think you were right the first time Feherke!

My fonts might be screwed, dunno how or what I need to do to put them right?



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[1DMF]

OK, i just looked on the Boss's machine and it shows normal font and italic for the <li> , on my machine ALL text on the page seems to be italic?

I have done an enlarged screen shot to show what I mean!



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[feherke]

Hi

If your browser supports add-ons, I would try to visit that page with disabled add-ons. ( In FireFox use the Help | Restart with Add-ons Disabled... command or start it with -safe-mode parameter. )

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