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Part III: Taking Precise Control Over Web Pages and Styles
Figure 11-1: The font family for hyperlinks differs from the
font family for the rest of the text.
Sizing
The following properties allow you to control the dimensions of your text.
Font size
The style declaration to specify the size of text is
selector {font-size: value;}
The value of the declaration can be
✓ One of the standard font-property measurement values (listed in
Chapter 9)
✓ One of these user-defined keywords:
xx-small, x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, or xx-large
The value of each keyword is determined by the browser, not by the
style rule.
The rules listed in upcoming subsections define
✓ A relative font value for all text
✓ An absolute value for the font size for all first-level headings
body {color: #808000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 85%;}
h1 {font-family: “trebuchet ms”, verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: 2em; line-height: 2.5em; color: teal;}