dec 21 2013 03:18 John <[email protected]>:

> am I right thinking this is an inheritance issue?

the descendent "nav li” selector will of course affect all such elements unless 
you override them. The "footer li” selector at the linked page overrides the 
display and font-size of ”nav li". Relative font size is based on the font size 
of the surrounding element, but the two nav elements and the ul element both 
have an effective font size of 16px, so the result for the li elements here are 
13px on both lists anyway. 

I’m not sure what you mean with "take their marching orders”?

Why don’t you just use the developer tools of your browser and find out for 
yourself? I prefer Firefox, but Chrome is good too as is the Web Developer tool 
add-on for both. http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer. 
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