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  1. 05-02-2004, 09:11 PM #1
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    Font Size/Font Face

    No matter how I code, my browser will display only one font face and size. Is there an over-ride that has to be turned off in the browser? A short example:
    <html>
    <body>
    <h1 style="font-size:150%;color:blue">My Heading</h1>
    <p style="font-size:80%;color:red">A paragraph. A paragraph. A paragraph. A paragraph. </p>
    </body>
    </html>
    The browser displays h1 in blue, but the font size is standard for h1 and the same for the paragraph - color okay -- size not. What can I change?
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  2. 05-03-2004, 05:55 AM #2
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    Hi there joanbeckwith

    And a big welcome to these forums
    It is not normal practise to alter the font-size of headings...
    it is assumed that one of the six will suit the purpose.
    Nevertheless you can change the font-size if you feel that you must.

    example

    compare...

    <h1 style="font-size:80px;">My Heading</h1>

    to...

    <h1>My Heading</h1>

    When using percentages with headings you may run into some peculiar effects though.

    As regards the <p> tag I think that you will find that...

    <p style="font-size:80%;color:red">A paragraph. A paragraph. A paragraph. A paragraph. </p>

    is 80% of the size of...

    <p>A paragraph. A paragraph. A paragraph. A paragraph. </p>

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  3. 05-14-2004, 07:25 AM #3
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    I don't think I worded my question properly. I agree with you about headings - that was an example picked out of a tutorial.
    Just so we know we are talking about code that should work, here is an example from the w3schools.com "try it" editor:

    h3 {font-family: times}
    p {font-family: courier}
    p.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif}

    url:
    http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_font-family

    No matter what name is typed in place of "times" or "courier" above, the example and all other pages display in arial - always. I was under the impression that a browser default font would display only when there was no font in the web page code.

    The same for font-size, font-family etc. Hope I was a little more clear this time.
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  4. 05-14-2004, 09:28 AM #4
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    One important thing you didn't tell us..which browser are you using?
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  5. 05-14-2004, 02:34 PM #5
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    Hi there joanbeckwith,

    as QuietDean said...
    'One important thing you didn't tell us..which browser you are using?'
    I have just been over to 'w3schools' and the 'try it'
    worked perfectly for me in...
    1. firfox 0.8
    2. Opera 7.1
    3. I.E. 6.0
    4. Mozilla 1.6
    5. Netscape 7.1


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