I can tell you that the code is taken from the "fonts" style-sheet of the YUI library. It's an attempt to normalize font-size across browsers. Now that I know what the asterisks are for, it makes sense. From the code comments: " x-small is for IE < 6 and IE6 quirks mode"
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Livingston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 11:49 AM To: Demers, Scott Subject: Re: [css-d] asterisk in front of font property On 5/16/06 1:33 PM, "Demers, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > body {font:13px > arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;*font-size:small;*font:x-small;} Not only the asterisks, but what is actually happening in that rule? Do non-IE browsers _not_ see the last to size declarations? If they are only for IE, why have both small and x-small? -- Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist Media Logic www.mlinc.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
