SU Menu Font and Size

Jim · 25 Jan 2010, 16:07

How to find out the font used by SU menus? I want to use the same in a WebDialog for consistency.

thomthom · 25 Jan 2010, 16:09

Query the system for the font settings. Somewhere in the registry.

thomthom · 25 Jan 2010, 16:11

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel ?

thomthom · 25 Jan 2010, 16:13

Never mind all that. I just remembered, since it's for webdialogs - there is CSS keywords for this: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#font-shorthand

You even got a list of system colours: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ui.html#system-colors

Jim · 25 Jan 2010, 16:20

Ah!

body {
  font; menu;
}

seems to work. Is it portable?

thomthom · 25 Jan 2010, 16:42

Think so. It's part of the W3C standard - think it work across platforms. Though I've never used these keywords outside pure Windows environment so I don't know how well the support is. Will need to do some testing. I got an OSX and Linux box...

Dan Rathbun · 28 Jan 2010, 14:20

@thomthom said:

Will need to do some testing. I got an OSX and Linux box...

Here's a test page for the SystemColors:
http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/colors/sys_colors.htm