Multi browser CSS help needed bad

[scriptlor]

Hey there, Im real stuck with this problem. What it is is I have defined a series of tags in CSS that relate to text, so like "text { font-family: blah blah }" and so on, and then used the markup <text> to define font, and in Firefox, it's perfect. However I cant get the bugger to work in IE, it doesnt recognise the style sheet and so doesnt recognise the markup. Is there any If statement I could use, or another way of defining CSS to be recognised by the browser? This has got me stumped bad, and unfortunately, all my users dont use Firefox.

[curtiss]

Put a period in front of your style definition (".text"), and then it becomes a class definition. From there, simply put all of the text you want effected into some sort of tag that will accept a class declaration (span, table/tr/td, div, etc.).

You can also try defining "body" within your css, which should effect everything within your body tags. However, I've found that, when you use tables and spans, etc., they break out of the "body" definition.

[Till]

Don't use the font tag, it's old, and you don't want it ever.

Also, beware of reserved words.

I'll give you an example:

<style type="text/css">
.intro { font-size:8pt; color:#ff0000 }
</style>

To use it:

<p class="intro">your introduction here</p>

Till

[cssiscool]

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