Two questions about webdesign

[Adam Y.]

I'm working on a website and I was choosing the font for a section of it. I decided just to use a generic font family as my selection. Mozilla and IE picked out the perfect font for my website. Unfortunately, I have no idea what font it chose. Is there anyway for me to figure out what font the picked out of the specific family. Here is the CSS code that I used:

#quotes {font-family:fantasy,cursive}

Also does anyone know why internet explorer displays table borders as white while mozilla is displaying them as black?

[Stephen Kowski]

Alpha Geometrique is a part of the fantasy font set and is probably the font you are looking at.

oh and you can specify a border by using
border:'border-width' 'border-style' 'color';

ex. border: 1px solid #000;

and you can do that with each column

#mytable{
border: 1px solid #000;}

#mytable td{
border: 1px solid #000;}

<table id="mytable">
<td><tr></tr></td>

hopefully this was helpful =/

[Adam Y.]

Thanks. I figured out one of the problems. Internet explorer didn't display the border as white. It was displaying the border as gray all the while. It just looked white against the background I choose. Wow. Thanks for telling me what font I was looking at. Would that font be available on most computers??

[Kamikaze]

If you really need a fancy fantasy font to show up you're probably better off making it an image because it's hard to garauntee your viewers will have those fonts.

Try using an image replacement technique so you don't destroy the flow of the html. http://www.stopdesign.com/articles/replace_text/

[Adam Y.]

Originally Posted by Kamikaze

If you really need a fancy fantasy font to show up you're probably better off making it an image because it's hard to garauntee your viewers will have those fonts.

Try using an image replacement technique so you don't destroy the flow of the html. http://www.stopdesign.com/articles/replace_text/

That really is not the best alternative though especially if someone blind wants to read the website. I figure the way I have it now should work. Unfortunately, would someone now tell me whe mozilla and IE are now displaying two completely differnt fonts.

#quotes {font-family:"Alpha Geometrique",fantasy,cursive,Impact; }

[Kamikaze]

Err. Screen-readers can read a website just fine if it uses an image replacement technique such as the one made by Rundle. The most important part of that article was the explanation of why IR is used and the links at the bottom. I suppose I should've been more clear about that.

[Greg Marra]

There are techniques to embed a font in a site via CSS.

You can read about it here

Try Inman Flash Replacement if you really want to get ambitious. The only problem is it looks ugly on Mozilla w/ adblock.