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Change font-family with JavaScript

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I want to change the font-family of all elements in a document with JavaScript.

I have tried this:

document.querySelectorAll("body").forEach( (e)=>{
    e.style.fontFamily = "arial";
});

This changed the font-family of generally everything besides what already had a font-family defined in CSS ID or class.

How could I make the JavaScript command to "run through" these IDs and classes?

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Without knowing your use case, the simplest modification would just be to target everything:

document.querySelectorAll("*").forEach((e) => {
    e.style.fontFamily = "arial";
});

(As an aside, if you want to target the body element, just use document.body. No need for selectors.)

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I thank you for the sharp distinction (2 comments)
I thank you for the sharp distinction
deleted user wrote about 3 years ago · edited about 3 years ago

Between "body" and "*".

I understand that "body" goes only on its direct children, but "*" goes on everything.

Moshi‭ wrote about 3 years ago

deleted user Actually, "body" just goes on the body element, but child elements inherit their CSS from it unless overridden.