Re: CSS text sizes differing from IE and Opera

[Boris Zbarsky]

Ben S wrote:

if I want it to be the same size across all browsers

I'm sorry, but this is not achievable in any case (think text zoom, user stylesheets, etc). If this is your design goal, I would suggest using PDF instead of HTML.... This especially holds true for x-small and such, which are expicitly stated in the spec to be scaled based on the user's default font size (which the user can set in preferences).

So the things I would check are:

1) Do you have the same font size set as your "preferred" size in all
the browsers involved?

2) Are you sure you're triggering IE's "CSS1Compat" rendering mode?
You can check by looking at the document.compatMode value in
JavaScript. Of course this only applies to IE6.