Specify basic paragraph text, lists and tables

Hi guys,

i want my basic paragraph text, lists and tables to be dark green 12 point Verdana, but degrading to Arial, Helvetica and sans serif.

This is what i have put in my CSS to achieve this, is this correct?

p, li, td {
font: 12pt verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #003300
}

If thats wrong could someone please correct me...

Thanks.

 

I don't see anything in particular wrong with it. A better approach might be to depend on the user's UA and its default values. Most, if not all, browsers default to a 12pt font size, but as px. Too, the user might need or prefer a larger or smaller size. This leads to the following approach:

body {
    font: 100% verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
    color: #080;
    }

p, li, td {
    font-size: 1em;
    }

Code (markup):

cheers,

gary