[thelist] CSS: font-size fun!

Dougal Campbell dougal at gunters.org
Wed Aug 21 10:21:01 CDT 2002


On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Ken Kogler wrote:

> I've got:
>
> div #content {
>   font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
>   font-size: xx-small;
>   }

First of all, are you sure you didn't mean "div#content" (note the lack
of a space)? What you have above will only apply to an element with
id="content" that is a child of a div. I'm guessing that you instead
meant specifically a div with id="content". But no matter....

> The problem is, #content very well may have tables, lists and all sorts
> of other stuff in it later on down the road that I haven't anticipated
> yet. Right now, they're showing up as the default font size, which is
> larger than the specified one in my CSS.
>
> Can I say "all tags within #content must obey this font-size rule", or
> am I stuck writing out each one (div #content li, div #content td, etc)?

Try "#content,#content * {...}"

I don't remember which browsers support the wildcard, but I think it's
most of them.

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