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The font property is a shorthand property for: font-style. font-variant. font-weight. font-size/line-height. font-family. Note: The font-size and font-family values are required. If one of the other values is missing, their default value are used.
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Shorthand properties are CSS properties that let you set the values of multiple other CSS properties simultaneously. Using a shorthand property, you can write more concise (and often more readable) style sheets, saving time and energy.
The CSS specification defines shorthand properties to group the definition of common properties acting on the same theme. For instance, the CSS background property is a shorthand property that's able to define the values of background-color, background-image, background-repeat, and background-position. Similarly, the most common font-related properties can be defined using the shorthand font, and the different margins around a box can be defined using the margin shorthand.
Omitting properties
A value which is not specified is set to its initial value. That means that it overrides previously set values. For example: This will not set the color of the background to red but to the default value for background-color, which is transparent. Only the individual properties values can inherit. As missing values are replaced by their initial value, it is impossible to allow inheritance of individual properties by omitting them. The keyword inherit can be applied to a property, but only as a whole, not as a keyword for one value or another. That means that the only way to make some specific value to be inherited is to use the longhand property with the keyword inherit.
Ordering properties
Shorthand properties try not to force a specific order for the values of the properties they replace. This works well when these properties use values of different types, as the order has no importance, but this does not work as easily when several properties can have identical values. Two important cases here are: •properties related to the edges of a box, like border-style, margin or padding •properties related to the corners of a box, like border-radius
Consider a background with the following properties
These four declarations can be shortened to just one:
(The shorthand form is actually the equivalent of the longhand properties above plus background-attachment: scroll and, in CSS3, some additional properties.)
See background for more detailed information, including CSS3 properties.
Consider the following declarations:
These 5 statements can be shortened to the following:
With borders, the width, color, and style can be simplified into one declaration. For example, consider the following CSS:
It can be simplified as:
Shorthand versions of margin and padding values work similarly; the margin property allows for shorthand values to be specified using one, two, three, or four values. Consider the following CSS declarations:
They are the same as the following declaration using the four value shorthand. Note that the values are in clockwise order, beginning at the top: top, right, bottom, then left (TRBL, the consonants in "trouble").
Margin shorthand rules for one, two, three and four value declarations are:
•When one value is specified, it applies the same margin to all four sides.
•When two values are specified, the first margin applies to the top and bottom, the second to the left and right.
•When three values are specified, the first margin applies to the top, the second to the left and right, the third to the bottom.
With position, the shorthand versions of top, right, bottom and left can be simplified into one declaration. For example, consider the following CSS:
It can be simplified as:
CSS provides a universal shorthand property, all, which applies its value to every property in the document. Its purpose is to change the properties' inheritance model.
See Cascade and inheritance or Introducing the CSS Cascade for more information about how inheritance works in CSS.
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Sep 25, 2024 · The font CSS shorthand property sets all the different properties of an element's font. Alternatively, it sets an element's font to a system font.
Sep 22, 2022 · The font property in CSS is a shorthand property that combines all the following sub-properties in a single declaration. body { font: normal small-caps normal 16px/1.4 Georgia; } /* is the same as: body { font-family: Georgia; line-height: 1.4; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 16px; } */
Feb 18, 2015 · Font Shorthand. Chris Coyier on Feb 18, 2015. Syntax. body { font: font-style font-variant font-weight font-size/line-height font-family; } In Use. body { font: italic small-caps normal 13px / 150% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }
Definition and Usage. The font property is a shorthand property for: font-style. font-variant. font-weight. font-size / line-height. font-family. The font-size and font-family values are required. If one of the other values is missing, their default value are used.
May 27, 2021 · What is the CSS Font Shorthand? The shorthand method of styling is just as the name suggests, a shorter way to style in CSS. To make easy sense of this, first take a look at the following HTML and CSS code examples.
