CSS font sizes in IE 5

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November 17th, 2003, 02:40 AM

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CSS font sizes in IE 5

I am using an linked style sheet to render the font styles of my site. These fonts are displayed as they should be in IE 6, however in IE 5 the size of the font's seems to be ignored with all the other elements of the style being applies such as colour.

I am using % to determine the size, e.g. font-size: 70%.

Anyone got any ideas?

November 17th, 2003, 01:23 PM

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Do you declare an initial font size, i.e. what the 100% would be?

Don't know whether that would be the problem, just a shot in the dark.

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November 18th, 2003, 01:56 AM

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no, the body tag is declared first with a font size as 70%. As I said all the other elements of the style are being applied except the size.

November 18th, 2003, 03:14 PM

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Try setting

Code:

body
{
 font-size: small
}

and then see how it works. Earlier versions of Internet Explorer may not recognize an initial % designation of size. If that doesn't work, try

Code:

body
{
 font-size: 12pt
}

This forces an explicit size declaration, which your relative declarations can refer to.

Hope that answers your question.

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