On Jul 30, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > As example - http://opag.ca/ > > The paragraphs in the main page of the front page are simple p > tags. They > should inherit the font-size attribute of the body tag, but I can > change that > to whatever I like and the size of the text in the page does not > change. > > If I change the p tag's font-size, it is reflected immediately.
That document is in Quirksmode. And the <p> are descendants of a <table> In that mode (also known as backwards compatibility mode), inheritance does not go _through_ <table>: <table> resets the font- size to 1em. If you use a DocType [1] that triggers Standards Mode, then the inheritance will work. [1] at a minimum: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh <http://emps.l-c-n.com> ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
