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Achim Domma (SyynX Solutions GmbH)

12-14-05 - 11:24 AM

Hi,

is there a possibility to set the font size to a percent value of the
"top level" font size?

For example:

The font size of the body might be 100% and I have a div which should
have a font size of 80% of this value, independent of other tags around
this div:

<body style='font-size: 12pt'>
<div style='font-size: 90%'>
<div style='???'>text with a size of 80% of 12pt, independent
of the 90% of the parent div</div>
</div>
</body>

regards,
Achim

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Re: font size relative to "top level" font size

Stan Brown

12-15-05 - 01:00 AM

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:16:30 +0100 from Achim Domma (SyynX Solutions
GmbH) <achim.domma@syynx.de>:
> is there a possibility to set the font size to a percent value of the
> "top level" font size?
>
> For example:
>
> The font size of the body might be 100% and I have a div which should
> have a font size of 80% of this value, independent of other tags around
> this div:

Nope -- no way. It would be useful in some circumstances, but each
element inherits its base size for %age calculations from its parent.
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#propdef-font-size

CSS does have absolute font size like "medium", but you don't want to
use them because you have no idea what size the user has set up in
the browser.

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