Re: Font Size Mystery (Windows)

>The inheritance of styles from the BODY tag stops
>when a table is encountered, although IE has a bug
>with this."

    Actually, both IE and Navigator 4.x have bugs with this. 
Navigator's are worse.  Styles should inherit from the BODY (or any 
other ancestor element, like a DIV or another table) into a table. 
There is nothing about tables which makes them any more special than 
other elements.
    Unfortunately, Navigator 4.x is so poorly implemented that it 
can't handle inheritance into table elements.  Thus, most people 
write their styles like this:

    BODY, TD, TH {...basic styles here...}

That can sometimes backfire, depending on what styles are used and 
the effect which is intended.  Of course, if you're going to hack 
around a bug then you should expect some backfires.
    IE4 and IE5 have very different "bugs" which yield similar 
results, so the same advice applies.

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Eric A. Meyer (eric(at)meyerweb.com)   http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/
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