What you are seeing is 100% of .8em (em being the size of the font relative to font size of the body). There are three units one should be very careful; They are em, px and ex. px is relative to the device used to view the web; ex is the x-height of the font ie the width of the font (in cartesian geometry xy units).
Now the size you are seeing is 80% (0.8) of the overall font size. So you are seeing 100% of 80%. My 2p worth here! and hope it helps. --- On Fri, 5/28/10, Angela French <afre...@sbctc.edu> wrote: > > My css looks like this: > > body { font-size:100%; } > > p {font-size: .8em;} > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/