Personally I set a 100% font-size for the body to start off with and then set individual % for the different tags and classes.
The problem you describe sounds like something I struggled with at the beginning as well: I presume what is happening is that you are inheriting sizes between nested tags, which sometimes is being interpreted differently amongst the browsers. So let's say you have given your <p> tags a font-size of 80% and then another tag inside of your <p></p> a different font-size of 80%. This will make the second tag only 80% of 80% of 100%. You have to be a bit careful with that, otherwise you end up with fonts that are way too small. Good luck with it anyway. Once you get it going it's worth the work! > -----Original Message----- > From: Javier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 17 November 2004 8:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [WSG] Font size > > > > Hi > > I'm trying to develope a site with proportional font size. > > When I start to test what I did, I falled in problems with Firefox/IE > differences. Fonts that in Firefox appears big or normal in IE appear so > small. Then I tried to check other sites to see what the people are > doing... > > I've seen a lot of combinations and tested various but nothing work as I > want. May be I'm combining everything instead of take a method and try to > apply it and solve its problems. > > Now I want to start from scratch but I'm not sure wich method to use. > > I've seen people that apply a font small in body and then use em's in all > other settings. I've seen people that apply a 65% font-size in > body, others > a 100%, etc.. and then use em's in other settings but others use > percentage... > > Now I'm really confused... > > Which is the best way to get fonts working identically in any browser ? > Sorry for the question, is the second I ask about fonts, but this problem > is driving me nuts. > > Thanks in advance > Javier > > > PD: Sorry for my poor english... :) > > > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
