Chrome error for font family: "Invalid property value"

Question

The following CSS works well on IE and FireFox, but chrome marks it as "Invalid property value" -

TD.desc1_hp { font-family: Arial,Arial (Hebrew),David (Hebrew);  }

any hint why?

Thanks,

Atara

Refer

Do you think arial (hebrew) will be present if arial is not? – Phytobiology

Also, just to add to this, you cannot use font-family: default; either... – Lomalomas

Answer 1

Font faces should be enclosed in double quotes. Font faces with parentheses seem to require that. This works:

TD.desc1_hp { font-family: Arial, "Arial (Hebrew)", "David (Hebrew)";  }

Phytobiology

By the CSS 2.1 spec, “Font family names must either be given quoted as strings, or unquoted as a sequence of one or more identifiers. This means most punctuation characters and digits at the start of each token must be escaped in unquoted font family names.” – Plowboy

@JukkaK.Korpela This shows they should be quoted as the alternative is to escape all punctuation. Thanks for the specs. – Phytobiology