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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 08/10/06 21:47
falconer <incoming@cinemaminima.com> scripsit:
> I must work within a CMS which controls the styles attached to the
> body tag -- I cannot alter this:
>
> body {font-size: 13px}
Sigh. Are you _sure_ you must work under such foolish constraints?
> But I cannot figure out how to instruct the wrap division to ignore
> the instruction for the default font-size to be 13px.
Well, that's simple, e.g.
#wrap { font-size: 16px; }
Of course, fixed font sizes aren't a good idea. But if the _overall_ font
size on a page is set in pixels, does it make sense to set the font size of
some element in some different units?
> How can the
> font-size of the #wrap container be made to be whatever the browser's
> default may be?
By setting it to medium.
> I have tried
> #wrap {font-size: normal}, or
Won't work, since there is no such value defined for the font-size property
in CSS specifications; use
#wrap { font-size: medium; }
> #wrap {font-size: 100%!important}, or
> #wrap {font-size: 100%}
The percentage relates by definition to the font size of the enclosing
element, so it won't help here. Note: The !important specifier is not
needed, since _any_ setting of the font-size property for an element
prevents the inheritance of the property value from the enclosing element.
The specifier would be needed, though, if the overall style sheet contained
e.g.
* { font-size: 13px; }
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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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