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CSS defines 5 generic font families: (You can employ any of these families in a document by using the property font-family.)
By combining specific font names with generic font families, you can create documents that come out, if not exact, at least close to your intentions.
h1 {font-family: Georgia, serif;}
Based on this list, a user agent will look for the fonts in the order they’re listed. If none of the listed fonts are available, then it will simply pick a serif font that is available.
p {font-family: Times, TimesNR, ‘New Century Schoolbook’, Georgia, ‘New York’, serif;}
Values:
normal | bold | bolder | lighter | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 | 600 | 700 | 800 | 900 | inherit
One of the numeric values (100, etc.), or one of the numeric values plus one of the relative values (bolder or lighter)
There are seven absolute-size values for font-size: xx-small, x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, and xx-large. These are not defined precisely, but are relative to each other:
p.one {font-size: xx-small;}
p.two {font-size: x-small;}
p.three {font-size: small;}
p.four {font-size: medium;}
p.five {font-size: large;}
p.six {font-size: x-large;}
p.seven {font-size: xx-large;}
The difference (or scaling factor) between one absolute size and the next should be about 1.5 going up the ladder, or 0.66 going down. Different user agents have assigned the “default” font size to different absolute keywords. Note that there are seven absolute-size keywords, just as there are seven font sizes (e.g., <font size=”5″>). The typical default font size was historically 3.
In a way, percentage values are very similar to the relative-size keywords. A percentage value is always computed in terms of whatever size is inherited from an element’s parent.
Note: Although font-size is inherited in CSS, it is the computed values that are inherited, not percentages.
Values:
small-caps | normal | inherit
Purpose:
Turns fonts to capitalized characters, with the originally capitalized characters slightly larger than the non-capitalized ones.
h1 {font: italic 900 small-caps 30px Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;}
h2 {font: bold normal italic 24px Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;}
It’s important to realize, however, that this free-for-all situation applies only to the first three values of font. The last two are much stricter in their behavior. Not only must font-size and font-family appear in that order as the last two values in the declaration, but both must always be present in a font declaration.
So far, we’ve treated font as though it has only five values, which isn’t quite true. It is also possible to set the line-height using font, despite that fact that line-height is a text property, not a font property. It’s done as a sort of addition to the font-size value, separated from it by a forward slash (/):
body {font-size: 12px;}
h2 {font: bold italic 200%/1.2 Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;}
This addition of a value for line-height is entirely optional, just as the first three font values are. If you do include a line-height, remember that the font-size always comes before line-height, never after, and the two are always separated by a slash.
ASP.NET includes a feature designed to automatically combat script injection attacks, known as request validation. Two ways to disable request validation:
<%@ Page ValidateRequest="false" Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"
CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>
<configuration>
<appSettings/>
<connectionStrings/>
<system.web>
<pages validateRequest="false"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
To prevent these script injection attacks, use Server.HtmlEncode:
Response.Write("Entered Input is:" + Server.HtmlEncode(txtInput.Text));
HtmlEncode replaces characters that have special meaning in HTML-to-HTML variables that represent those characters. For example, < is replaced with < and ” is replaced with “. Encoded data does not cause the browser to execute code. Instead, the data is rendered as harmless HTML.
“inherit” makes the value of a property the same as the value of its parent element. In most cases, you don’t need to specify inheritance, since most properties inherit naturally. Ordinarily, directly assigned styles override inherited styles, but inherit can reverse that behavior.
There are absolute url and relative url. In CSS, relative URLs are relative to the style sheet itself, not to the HTML document that uses the style sheet.
Example:
@import url(special/toppings.css);
Note that there cannot be a space between the url and the opening parenthesis:
body {background: url(http://www.pix.web/picture1.jpg);} /* correct */
body {background: url (images/picture2.jpg);} /* INCORRECT */
With hexadecimal notation, any triplet that uses the values 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, and FF is considered to be web-safe. Example: #00CC66, #FF00FF, etc…
A series of MSDN articles on ASP.NET Providers:
Couple additional resources:
