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		recursive on Nov 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy How would you set the font?

brm on Nov 4, 2024 [–]

Inline style or <font>

karaterobot on Nov 4, 2024 | | [–]

<font> was deprecated in, I think, the HTML 4 spec. That was published in 1999. Not a great signal to send anyone looking to hire you and checking your source code! And inline styles are just another way of using CSS!

brm on Nov 5, 2024 | | | [–]

they asked how to do it, not if it was good to do it.

recursive on Nov 4, 2024 | | [–]

If inline style is ok, what is the problem with CSS? Actually, it is CSS.

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