Title: changing what "large" does
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# changing what "large" does

 *  [waldfield](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waldfield/)
 * (@waldfield)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-what-large-does/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jint/)
 * (@jint)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-what-large-does/#post-1614399)
 * 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](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waldfield/)
 * (@waldfield)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-what-large-does/#post-1614440)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jint/)
 * (@jint)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-what-large-does/#post-1614536)
 * A link to your blog/website would help a great deal.

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