How to pick the font IE uses for "sans-serif"

[Lance Carriere]

How can I choose which font is used when a web page calls for the
generic font "sans-serif". My browser is currently set to a font the is
particularly unreadable.

As an example the following URL has the BODY tag set to use "sans-serif"
in the css.

http://www.w3c.org/XML/

Thanks,

Lance.

 

[C. A. Upsdell]

How can I choose which font is used when a web page calls for the
generic font "sans-serif". My browser is currently set to a font the is
particularly unreadable.

Other browsers let you specify the font. IE does not.

What you have to do is (a) identify the font IE is picking, (b) uninstall
it, without deleting the font file, (c) run IE so that it will pick another
font, hopefully better, then (d) re-install the un-installed font.

 

[Lance Carriere]

Other browsers let you specify the font. IE does not.

What you have to do is (a) identify the font IE is picking, (b)
uninstall it, without deleting the font file, (c) run IE so that it
will pick another font, hopefully better, then (d) re-install the
un-installed font.

OMG - that's bad!

I did as you recommend and it picked another more readable font,
although I'd rather it pick something like Arial or Tahoma.

Do you have any idea how it selects the font? Sorted by anything?

Thanks

Lance.