Re: Nested lists, Font Sizes, IE
by Timothy Luoma <luomat(at)operamail.com>
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Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:35:22 -0500 |
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Nigel Peck - MIS Web Design <nigel(at)miswebdesign.com>,
hwg-style(at)hwg.org |
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miswebdesign riveraamd |
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On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:05:30 -0500, Tim Rivera <lists(at)timrivera.com> wrote:
> Of course, EM's and percentages are values determined by the parent
> element. If you nest lists, each list will be 80% of the parent list font
> size. (For my quick test, this was true in IE6, Mozilla 1.2.1, and Opera
> 7b2.)
>
> A way to get around this would be:
>
> li {font-size: 80%}
> li li {font-size: 100%}
This is why I started to use font keywords (or whatever you want to call
them) because they do not compound:
See http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_26_using_relative_font_sizes.html
for a good tutorial on using them and working around browser bugs.
TjL
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