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== Summary ==

The font-size property is used to control the size of a font for a defined section.  The size can be declared absolutely or relatively to the user's default font size.
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<td><b>Applicability:</b></td><td>The font-size property can be used for all CSS elements.<td>
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<td><b>Inherited:</b></td><td>Yes</td>
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== Syntax ==
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TARGET_ELEMENT { font-size: 12pt; }
TARGET_ELEMENT { font-size: larger }
TARGET_ELEMENT { font-size: 150% }
TARGET_ELEMENT { font-size: 1.5em }
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== Legal Values ==
Values can be entered in 4 ways:

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<th>Method</th><th>Range</th><th>Example</th>
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<td>Absolute-size</td><td>xx-small | x-small | small | medium | large | x-large | xx-large </td><td>"medium" maintains the default font-size</td>
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<td>Relative-size</td><td>larger | smaller </td><td>(Relative to parent or user font table)</td>
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<td>Length</td><td>Positive point value</td><td>12pt.</td>
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<td>Percentage</td><td>Positive percentage value</td><td>150%(Relative to parent or user font table)</td>
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See [[#Usage Examples | usage examples]] section for more details.

== Mozilla Recommended Values ==

== Usage Examples ==
<pre>p{font-size: xx-large}  /*Set paragraph text to be very large.*/</pre>
<pre>h1{font-size: 250%}  /*Set h1 (level 1 heading) text to 2.5 times the size of the parent or user font table.*/</pre>
<pre>span{font-size: 8pt;}  /*Sets text enclosed within span tag to be standard 8pt font*/</pre>

== Notes ==
The [http://www.w3.org World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)] provides a free online [http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ CSS validation service].

== Specification Conformance  ==
*[http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS1#font-size CSS 1 ]
*[http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#font-size-props CSS 2.1]
*[http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#font-size-props CSS 3]

== Browser Compatibility ==

== See Also ==