Specifies either the explicit or relative size of the font compared to the base font size.
Platform Support
IE | Netscape | Mozilla | Opera | Safari | 4.0+ | 4.0+ | 1.0+ | 4.0+ | 1.0+ |
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Usage
Example values: 12pt, 2em, 24px, small, 50%, etc.
Values
* | Specify a value for font-size that is not on this list. |
inherit | Inherit the value from the parent element. |
larger | Larger font. |
smaller | Smaller font. |
xx-small | XX-small font. |
x-small | X-small font. |
small | Small font. |
medium | Medium font. |
large | Large font. |
x-large | X-large font. |
xx-large | XX-large font. |
Remarks
You can explicitly specify a font size for font-size
in either pixels or a percentage.
Availability
W3C CSS2