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While my related question on Stack Overflow should explain the basic CSS for this once it gets answered, how would I define a custom font family for a wordpress blog that will only apply to a <span> and will not affect the site-wide font families being used by the theme on my wordpress site?

Related: Creating Useable Custom Font Family

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You can use this function: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/body_class

Use this in your header.php

<body <?php body_class(); ?>>

This gives each page a different class and so you can use CSS to set the font-family for a specific page like so:

body.blog span.yourClassName{ font-family:; }

Then of course the is also the jQuery solution using the .children() function

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What I specifically want to do is not apply to the entire body, or a page, but specifically within a <span> element, for targetted-formatting within a post. Is that even possible? (I did refer to the codex for this, and this was unable to fully encompass the use-case for this.) – The Lord of Time Aug 22 '12 at 19:19
Are you saying you want to apply classes to all elements within a specified element, or? – marcup Aug 22 '12 at 19:31
If you look at the code above closely you will see that the CSS rule selects all span's with a class of .yourClassName within the blog page only. – marcup Aug 22 '12 at 19:35
Per the related answer, my goal is to apply this to specific spans, for example: <span class="customclass">text</span> within wordpress posts. My question is mainly this: Do I need to worry about wordpress-specific formatting, or would adding the custom font-family, and then specially-defining span .customclass within the template/theme's CSS code as I would to a normal site be sufficient to apply the changes? – The Lord of Time Aug 22 '12 at 19:36
marcup, i had old information, you appeared to have edited, so that answers my question. Thanks! :) – The Lord of Time Aug 22 '12 at 19:37

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