Sig Question

Liniah · Post by **Liniah** » Thu May 13, 2004 2:18 pm

Ok, so I wanted to change the font in my sig. I switch the font name in the code, and nothing changes. What's going on and how can I change it? Thanks for the help!

3278 · Post by **3278** » Thu May 13, 2004 2:35 pm

Well, I, for one, don't have the "Poor Richard" font on my machine, and I doubt anyone else does, either. You'll want to pick a font everyone has.

Liniah · Post by **Liniah** » Sun May 16, 2004 1:06 pm

I tried a bunch of them I found listed in Word. I thought anything you had in Word would work? I tried like 5 different ones and none worked.

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Sun May 16, 2004 1:09 pm

The list of fonts that Word shows includes every font on your system.

ak404 · Post by **ak404** » Mon May 17, 2004 5:07 am

common fonts include Verdana, Courier (New), Times (New) Roman, Andale Mono, Garamond, Helevitica, Arial (New), Georgia, (Sans) Serif, Century Gothic, and...I can't think of any more, really.

Liniah · Post by **Liniah** » Mon May 17, 2004 11:14 am

I tried Courier New and Century Gothic. Does my sig look Century Gothic now? That's what it's set to. The Courier New deffinately didn't work.

Liniah · Post by **Liniah** » Mon May 24, 2004 9:53 pm

Ok, so this is supposed to be Courier New. Does it look like it to anyone? Not to me. Am I doing something wrong? And the additionally anoying part is, I know I've gotten it to work in the past.

Anguirel · Post by **Anguirel** » Tue May 25, 2004 7:31 am

The font tag is deprecated anyways. <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style.html">Use CSS</a>. It should work inline, I think, maybe. It's a bit ugly for use under these exact circumstances, I guess...

I was about to say I don't know why it's not working, but I do. CSS is over-riding it, for unknown reasons (or even possibly well-known and absolutely correct ones). I attempted to change fonts using a local style tag in the form of both div and span, but it doesn't seem to want to work.

3278 · Post by **3278** » Tue May 25, 2004 2:42 pm

The worst part is, it /should/ work. Let me keep poking.

3278 · Post by **3278** » Fri May 28, 2004 4:54 pm

Still working! This is a very busy weekend for me, apparently. I'll probably work out some easy, generic CSS that anyone can use and post that, so you're not the only person with a solved problem. But it'll take some time, and apparently I don't have much of that.

Liniah · Post by **Liniah** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 2:12 am

So, I was trying some things tonight with my sig. I had been looking over HTML basics the other day, not relating to this, just in general. (I actually was looking at the web page mentioned above before it was mentioned.) Also, Adam was helping me a bit when I was fucking around with my sig. He gave me yet another page to check out. I tried looking at the code of some other people's sigs and that didn't help me either. I can't get it to work. I can not make the font change. (Like I said before, it used to work how I have it now, but at some point it stopped. Don't know when exactly.) But, yeah, tried some things that Adam said and tried some other things and I don't know what to do. 32, did you check things out yet?