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  • John L.
    #1

    font-size: 100%;

    Hi all

    I've been looking at various style sheets trying to get to grips with
    CSS. I've noticed that some sites use:

    body {
    font-size: 100%;
    }

    What is the point of this rule? When I test in the browsers I have
    access to, it seems to make no difference.

    Comments appreciated.
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    • Jonathan N. Little
      #2
      Re: font-size: 100%;

      John L. wrote:
      Hi all
      >
      I've been looking at various style sheets trying to get to grips with
      CSS. I've noticed that some sites use:
      >
      body {
      font-size: 100%;
      }
      >
      What is the point of this rule? When I test in the browsers I have
      access to, it seems to make no difference.
      It is to initialize the body base size of your page to a value so that
      MSIE will not screw up when you size child elements with a proportional
      value i.e., in "em"s.


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      Jonathan
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      http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

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        • David Stone
          #3
          Re: font-size: 100%;

          In article <7f150$4662ba0b $40cba7bd$27698 @NAXS.COM>,
          "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centra lva.netwrote:
          John L. wrote:
          Hi all

          I've been looking at various style sheets trying to get to grips with
          CSS. I've noticed that some sites use:

          body {
          font-size: 100%;
          }

          What is the point of this rule? When I test in the browsers I have
          access to, it seems to make no difference.
          >
          It is to initialize the body base size of your page to a value so that
          MSIE will not screw up when you size child elements with a proportional
          value i.e., in "em"s.
          Is that needed for flavours of MSIE >= 6, or is it only earlier ones?

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            • Jonathan N. Little
              #4
              Re: font-size: 100%;

              David Stone wrote:
              Is that needed for flavours of MSIE >= 6, or is it only earlier ones?
              Needed for 6, but don't know if they fixed it in 7 I am running Win2K.
              MSIE 7 does fix some of IE's CSS deficiencies and bugs but by no means
              all of them.

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              Take care,

              Jonathan
              -------------------
              LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
              Little Works Studio Site Maintainance
              http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

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                • Felix Miata
                  #5
                  Re: font-size: 100%;

                  On 2007/06/04 10:03 (GMT-0400) Jonathan N. Little apparently typed:
                  David Stone wrote:
                  >Is that needed for flavours of MSIE >= 6, or is it only earlier ones?
                  Needed for 6, but don't know if they fixed it in 7 I am running Win2K.
                  Not fixed in IE7.
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