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Problem with font-family in .css file using Atom

I'm using Atom 1.45.0 x64 on Linux Mint19.3 Cinnamon to learn basics of web development (I'm following a course of html5, CSS and JavaScript). I have 2 problems (probably related to each other):

  1. whenever I type the 'font-family' command in my .CSS file the only input suggestions I get are the ones you can see in the screenshot I uploded here. No way to specify other fonts;
  2. whenever I choose one of the available options, the fonts in my html page won't change (and it's not because of typos, bad linking between html and css files, etc).

fonts currently available on my Atom

I haven't been able to find a solution to this problem and I can't figure it out on my own because I'm not an advanced user of Linux systems. I've also installed the 'fonts' package on Atom but that hasn't solved the problem. Any suggestion?

Solution

  • It seems the problem affects Atom. Try to change from font-family to font-style and declare the value. So instead of doing font-family: italic try typing font-style: italic;

    Found similar problem here, even if it's using Windows 10: https://discuss.atom.io/t/why-cant-i-change-the-font-problem-solved-the-answer-is-inside/21086

    Comment if can't resolve.