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Safari is displaying Times New Roman for all fonts in Safari 5.0.x

My site is displaying all fonts in Times New Roman even though that declaration is nowhere in my CSS.

This only happens in Safari 5.0.5 on OS X only. When inspecting a text element, it says "font-family: Times New Roman".

The fonts are displayed correctly in 5.1

What could be the problem, and how can this be fixed?

Solution

  • If you have no fonts declared in your CSS, The browser may try to apply its default font.

    To avoid that, you may do something like:

    html{
 font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Verdana;
}

    However, If you do have font-family declared for your element, it may be some widget or external CSS that overwrites your CSS, Try to get rid of these for a quicker debugging.