71 Redundancy

I’m a bit confused, and after a testing, even more confused. Why has the author chosen to declare font-size in this manner:

/* xx-small.css*/
body,
body div,
body p,
body th,
body td,
body li,
body dd { font-size: xx-small; voice-family: “\”}\”“; voice-family: inherit; font-size: x-small
}

Wouldn’t the following be enough?

body { font-size: xx-small }

With the latter, everything in the body now is xx-small, no? From my testing, the author’s code actually causes some inherietance problems. Is there a point that I’m missing in writting it out the way the author has here?

posted at 10:19 am on July 10, 2004 by Fernando d.s.

72 Re: Redundancy

Hi Fernando, look this article for more information about relative font sizing:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sizematters/

posted at 05:02 am on July 27, 2004 by T.