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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> <font size="1"> [Country] </font> </span> Why are there multiple fonts in the font-family property?
Does it mean that if the arial font is not installed so it will goto helvetica?
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Yes. The font-family property can hold several font names as a "fallback" system.
Web authors should always add at least one generic family in a font-family list, since there's no guarantee that a specific font is installed on the computer or can be downloaded using a @font-face at-rule.
Start with the font you want, and always end with a generic family, to let the browser pick a similar font in the generic family, if no other fonts are available. Note: Separate each value with a comma. Note: If a font name contains white-space, it must be quoted.
To request multiple font families, separate the names with a pipe character ( | ). Requesting multiple fonts allows you to use all of those fonts in your page. (But don't go overboard; most pages don't need very many fonts, and requesting a lot of fonts may make your pages slow to load.)
Yes.
The font-family property can hold several font names as a "fallback" system. If the browser does not support the first font, it tries the next font.
From: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_font_font-family.asp
And as good practice:
Start with the font you want, and always end with a generic family, to let the browser pick a similar font in the generic family, if no other fonts are available.
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