Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/05/07 00:46

Vaxius wrote:
> On Sep 29, 1:25 pm, "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@centralva.net>
> wrote:

>> body { font-size: 100%; }
>> .legalese { font-size: .75em; }
>
> There's no base font-size here: 100% of what?

the BODY is the base of the displayed document, text outside of the BODY
element is not presentational.

body { font-size: 100%; }

means 100% of the "user defined | browser default" font size, all other
displayed elements are children of the BODY and are referenced off of
its settings...

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Take care,

Jonathan
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