How to Apply global font to whole HTML document

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I have a HTML page which includes some text and formatting  I want to make it have the same font-family and the same text-size ignoring all inner formatting of text   I want to set a global font format for the HTML page   How can I achieve this

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Set it in the body selector of your css  E g   body       font  16px Arial  sans-serif

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You should never use      important  What if you want to change font in some parts your HTML document  You should always use body without important  Use  important only if there is no other option

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You should be able to utilize the asterisk and  important elements within CSS   html        font-size  1em  important     color   000  important     font-family  Arial  important      The asterisk matches everything  you could probably get away without the html too    The  important ensures that nothing can override what you ve set in this style  unless it is also important    this is to help with your requirement that it should  ignore inner formatting of text  - which I took to mean that other styles could not overwrite these   The rest of the style within the braces is just like any other styling and you can do whatever you d like to in there  I chose to change the font size  color and family as an example

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Try this   body       font-family your font      font-size your value      font-weight your value

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Use the following css           font  Verdana  Arial   sans-serif   important     lt -- fonts        The  -selector means any all elements  but will obviously be on the bottom of the food chain when it comes to overriding more specific selectors   Note that the  important-flag will render the font-style for   to be absolute  even if other selectors have been used to set the text  for example  the body or maybe a p

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Best practice I think is to set the font to the body   body       font  normal 10px Verdana  Arial  sans-serif      and if you decide to change it for some element it could be easily overwrited   h2  h3       font-size  14px

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