>>>> Originally I thought that when I was sizing my header tags, using >>>> percentages, that the base size was that of the <p> tag.
>Umm, no. The percent is the size based off the parent element. Which >means that if you want to set a basic font size for a whole page, you do it >from the <body> tag. The p style has no effect for text outside of <p> >tags whatsoever. >>>> /* ===== font-size: small; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ===== */ >>>> font: 100%/1.4 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; >>>> >>>> I also don't understand the font family change and the 100%/1.4. By >>>> increasing or decreasing 1.4 I can see the effect that it has, but why >>>> you recommended it I don't know. >Arial is a Windows font. It's ugly on other OSes. By putting in Helvetica >Neue, you're making it Mac friendly. By putting it first, you're using a >prettier font than Arial if it's available. >By putting the font size to 100%, instead of small, you're using the user's >default font-size, so they can still read your content, which is what the >web is all about anyway. >The 1.4 is the line-height. It defaults to 1.2 in most browsers, but >bigger line-heights make things easier to read, especially at smaller font >sizes / long line lengths. Putting in as just a number (instead of a % or >px) makes it work off of the default page font-size, so you don't have >varying line-heights around the page. Thank you Tim. This is what I was looking for. :) -Brian ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
