Re: [WSG] font size in a table

2005-07-04 Thread Hope Stewart
On 4/7/05 2:42 PM, russ - maxdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hope could just have easily changed from an incomplete HTML4.01 Transitional doctype to a complete version. This is not a criticism of Hope, as she may have had other reasons for moving to XHML. This was not a conscience nor

[WSG] font size in a table

2005-07-03 Thread Hope Stewart
I created a simple webpage containing a few paragraphs, a list and a table (for tabular data). For some reason that I cannot for the life of me work out, the font size of the text is much bigger in the table than elsewhere on the page. (Tested in FF, Safari, Opera/mac). It's driving me nuts! I

Re: [WSG] font size in a table

2005-07-03 Thread russ - maxdesign
You have an incomplete doctype which makes browsers go into quicks mode and then font size inheritance is ignored inside a table. Russ I created a simple webpage containing a few paragraphs, a list and a table (for tabular data). For some reason that I cannot for the life of me work out, the

Re: [WSG] font size in a table

2005-07-03 Thread Hope Stewart
Thanks, Russ! I've fixed the doctype on the real page and it works beautifully now. The page is on a site with a non-web standards design that I've inherited. It's due for a revamp in a couple of months when I plan to introduce standards. I thought I'd start to experiment with this new page but

RE: [WSG] font size in a table

2005-07-03 Thread Webmaster
but is there a standard way to set the font size across all elements (irrespsective of inheritance)? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hope Stewart Sent: Monday, 4 July 2005 11:12 AM To: Web Standards Group Subject: [WSG] font size in a table I

Re: [WSG] font size in a table

2005-07-03 Thread Prabhath Sirisena
On 7/4/05, Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Hope, 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

Re: [WSG] font size in a table

2005-07-03 Thread Hope Stewart
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

RE: [WSG] font size in a table

2005-07-03 Thread Webmaster
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

Re: [WSG] font size in a table

2005-07-03 Thread russ - maxdesign
Paul, To switch to standards compliant mode, you must have a full and complete doctype but it does NOT have to be XHTML at all. Hope could just have easily changed from an incomplete HTML4.01 Transitional doctype to a complete version. This is not a criticism of Hope, as she may have had other