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How to conditionally load Google Font client-side while avoiding FOUT
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<html> | |
<head> | |
<script> | |
/** | |
* This function used with gratitude from | |
* http://stackoverflow.com/a/34666534/1591507 | |
* I want to refactor this to ES6 so badly but | |
* since it has to reside in the DOM to avoid FOUT, | |
* we can't transpile with Babel unfortunately | |
*/ | |
function addCss(fileName) { | |
var head = document.head | |
, link = document.createElement('link') | |
link.type = 'text/css' | |
link.rel = 'stylesheet' | |
link.href = fileName | |
head.appendChild(link) | |
} | |
// Wrap this call with any sort of conditional you like | |
addCss('http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,600,700&subset=latin,latin-ext'); | |
</script> | |
<style> | |
h1 { | |
font-family: 'Open Sans'; | |
} | |
</style> | |
</head> | |
<body> | |
<h1>Hello World</h1> | |
</body> | |
</html> |
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