Frontpage adds (serif) to my font in a table

[Guest]

I have tables on my site which are in the Trebuchet MS font. If I copy an
item and then change it, the font information remains intact (as you'd
expect). However, if you delete an item then re-type it, although in Design
view it looks like Trebuchet, when you publish/Preview it, it looks like
Times New Roman. If you then right-click to change the font, it seems to be
"Trebuchet MS (serif)". I then change it to Trebuchet MS and all's well!

My default font is set to Trebuchet MS. When I look at the style code at
the top of the page, it says "font-family: Trebuchet MS".

How can I stop Frontpage from doing this?

Thanks,

Joanne

 

[Murray]

Show me your page, please.

I'm guessing that the problem is caused by a) a page without a doctype,
hence rendering in Quirks mode, and b) the attendant flawed inheritance of
styles into tables in Quirks mode.

The solutions would be a) to add a valid and complete doctype to the page,
or b) to add a style rule to the page that uses a td selector explicitly
setting the font, e.g.,

body, td, p { font-family:trebuchet, verdana, arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; }