Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - HTML syntax for adjusting formatting

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Cascading Style-Sheets are used for managing the overall behavior of a document.
They must be set before <body>. The example below sets the default for

• font: Verdana, 8pt, black
• table font: Verdana, 8pt, black
• table elements: Nowrap, cellpadding=0

<html> <head> ... </head>

<style type="text/css">
 <!--
  body{color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 8pt}
 table{color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 8pt}
    td{white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0}
 -->
</style>

<body> ... </body>  </html>

-	The alternative is using the following, for text and each table separately

<font face="verdana,sans-serif,arial,helvetica" color="" style="font-size:8pt">
...text
</font>

<table cellpadding=0 style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 8pt">
  <tr><td nowrap> ...
  </td></tr>
</table>

Quick Syntax Reference -- Style, spacing

<font  ... face="verdana,sans-serif,arial,helvetica" color="" style="font-size:8pt" >
<table ... style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 8pt" >
<form  ... style="margin-bottom:0; margin-top:0" >

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