[thelist] CSS Question - Table Inheritance

Sam Carter sam at iness.com
Thu Sep 22 10:17:28 CDT 2005


It should.  There's a bug in IE 5.5 which won't take the inherited font 
size.  You can get around nicely using the following CSS using

TABLE {font-size:1em}

Sam

Jay Blanchard wrote:

>Gawd, I'm going to sound like a newbie....but I cannot remember. If I have
>this....
>
>#content {
>	background: #FFFFFF;
>	font: 0.8em arial, sans-serif, "Trebuchet MS";
>	height: auto;
>	text-align: justify;
>	padding: 160px 70px 0px 70px;
>}
>
>and do this....
>
><div id="content">
><table ....
>
>everything here is normal table stuff, no classes or id's, etc
>
>...table>
></div>
>
>Shouldn't the table use the font declared in 'content', including the size?
>  
>




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