mcp6453 said:
Beginner question: How do you set a default font for a page using
HTML 3.0?
Using a linked style sheet.
But the question reveals that you really need to read an HTML tutorial,
_especially_ if you just read one and it taught you HTML 3.0 - which is
an incomplere draft that expired in 1995. It was never approved, still
less implemented. So you can't really use HTML 3.0 anywhere, except to
the extent that it coincides with what has actually been implemented.
In HTML as implemented, and as defined in HTML 3.2 and HTML 4, you could
use <basefont face="...">, but its effect has been vaguely defined and
inconsistently implemented. So just forget it.
A simple way of setting the default font face is this (it means using a
style sheet embedded into HTML): add the following into the <head> part
of your document:
<style type="text/css">
body { font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }
</style>
Adjust the font list as desired. You don't need to list several fonts,
but if you do, a browser uses the first one in the list that is available
on the system.