Very elementary CSS question, please help!

[tershagirl]

I'm trying to do something really simple in CSS, just have a main font size & then a different one inside a set of divs. There's just something really basic I'm missing & I don't know what it is.

Feel free to point/laugh/mock/whatever, as long as you'll help me out a little while you're doing it...

Thank you so much,
T

[vinyl-junkie]

Welcome to the forum, tershagirl.
Um, it's a little hard to point, laugh or whatever when you didn't post any code. I will say this though: Think of it like a parent-child relationship. The child inherits characteristics of the parent unless it explicitly overrides those characteristics. For example:
CSS:

rowclass {
color: black;
font-family: arial;
}
cellclass {
color: white;
}

HTML:

<tr class="rowclass">
<td class="cellclass">some stuff here</td>
</tr>

Both row and cells use a font of arial. However, row has a text color of black, while the individual cells within that row have a text color of white, because of that override thing.
OK, so this probably isn't the best example in the world, but hopefully you get the idea.
If this doesn't help, post your code so we can have a look at it.