Yes I had no idea that doctype could effect CSS rendering like this. I was always scraed to use XHTML 1.0 strict but the combination below looks good. It will become my new standard.
Thanks for asking the question. Paul -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hope Stewart Sent: Monday, 4 July 2005 1:54 PM To: Web Standards Group Subject: Re: [WSG] font size in a table On 4/7/05 1:23 PM, "Webmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This was bugging me for ages too. I don't know _why_ it does it but my > workaround to-date has simply been to implicitly set font-size for p, > td and li. My table and list text usually display larger when I only > set the font-size in the body element. > > I've asked this question before but is there a "standard" way to set > the font size across all elements (irrespsective of inheritance)? Thanks for your input. I had set the font-size for p ul and li and had used these tags within the td tags, but it still did not work. Russ supplied the answer for me: I was using the wrong doctype. I've changed: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> to: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> and all works beautifully. I don't fully understand all the components of doctypes, but the one I'm now using is working. Compare http://hopestew.customer.netspace.net.au/index.html to: http://hopestew.customer.netspace.net.au/index2.html The *only* difference in the code of these two pages are the first two lines, yet the font size behaves itself in the table on the second page because of the doctype. I don't know whether is would help in your case, but it created a miracle in mine! Hope ****************************************************** 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 ******************************************************
