On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 10:16 PM, Suzanne Stephens wrote:

> I'm unfamiliar with the approach of spec'ing font size in the body
> style. How do you "scale if needed from there"?

The inheritance thing...
<style type="text/css">
body { font-size:1em} /*this will set the base font-size for the
document the same as the default setting of their browser */
h1 { font-size:200%} /* the h1 will be twice as big as the default
(base) font-size*/
</style>

Or
<style type="text/css">
body { font-size:12px} /*this will set the base font-size for the
document to 12px */
h1 { font-size:300%} /* the h1 will be twice as big as the default
(base) font-size, in this case 36 px*/
</style>

Note that browsers have a default stylesheet, where the size of elements
as h1 are specified in relative units, so if you specify nothing for the
(ie) h1, the browser will use its default scaling factor to size the h1,
likely something like 1.8.

Clear as winevinegar ?

Philippe
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