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HTML

Shloime Kahan
Shloime Kahan
4,943 Points
Posted by Shloime Kahan
Shloime Kahan
4,943 Points

HTML fonts

I am not clear why this is added at the end of the font line

type="text/css"

Lukas Pscheidt
Lukas Pscheidt
2,229 Points
Lukas Pscheidt
Lukas Pscheidt
2,229 Points

Indicates, that content is CSS.

1 Answer

Richard Pichardo
Richard Pichardo
14,851 Points
Richard Pichardo
Richard Pichardo
14,851 Points

When importing a font into HTML you are actually importing a CSS stylesheet which contains the content for that font. If you visit the link in the "href" portion of that font's HTML link tag you can see the styles declared in the imported file (for example, the "font-face" declaration which holds all of the necessary information for the font).

You add type="text/css" so that the browser knows the file being imported is a CSS file. This is no longer required for most, if not all, modern browsers or webpages utilizing HTML5.