The font property (CSS Reference)
Introduction
The font property is used to set the font style of the text.
You can specify the width, the size, the family, variant, height and the style.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head><title>font Demonstration</title>
</head>
<span style="color:red;font-family:'Times New
Roman',Times,serif">Small text</span><br/>
<span style="color:red;font-family:'Times New
Roman',Times,serif;font-size:200%">Some bigger
text</span></p>
<span style="color:red;font-family:'Trebuchet
MS';font-size:400%">Some more bigger text</span></p>
<span style="color:red;font-family:'Comic Sans
MS';font-size:500%">And more bigger text</span></p>
<span
style="color:red;font-family:'Arial';font-size:600%">And even more
bigger text</span></p>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Output

Values
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Name:
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Description:
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caption
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This value is used to set the font style of a caption.
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icon
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This value is used to set the font style of icon labels.
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menu
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This value can be used to set the font style in drop down
controls.
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message-box
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This value can be used to set the font style in a
message-box.
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small-caption
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This value is used to set the font style for small
controls.
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status-bar
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This value is used to set the font style in a windows
status bar.
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