changing what "large" does

  • waldfield

    (@waldfield)


    15 years, 9 months ago

    Currently, when I surround text with “span font-size:large” tags, it makes it a certain size. Is there a way I can change what size this is?

    (Note: I’ve also tried using “x-large” and “larger” tags but they bring it to that same size that “large” does.)

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  • Steffen Jørgensen

    (@jint)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    the “large” and “larger” sets the font-size relatively to the font-size defined by CSS:
    http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_font_font-size.asp

    If you have a paragraph with a font-size of 12px and you have a span inside that like:

    <p>this <span style="font-size:larger">is sample</span> text...</p>

    the text inside the span will (logically) be “larger” than the text outside the span.

    I’m not sure if there are specific sizes or that depends on the browser rendering the text.

    I usually do it like this:

    HTML:
    <p>this <span class="larger">is sample</span> text...</p>
    CSS:
    p{font-size:1em;}
    p.larger{font-size:1.2em;}

    Thread Starter waldfield

    (@waldfield)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    Hmmm I tried putting those in my CSS, but it didn’t seem to do anything. Does it matter where in the CSS I put them? I just threw them on at the end. (Sorry but I’m pretty new to this stuff.)

    Steffen Jørgensen

    (@jint)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    A link to your blog/website would help a great deal.

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