Change of font size has no effect

HTML & CSS
1

Hey,

I can’t seem to work out why i can’t change the font size of the <ul> in the left column of this page…

I have purposely set a font size of 9px to see if it makes a difference but it has no effect.

http://www.freemanholland.com/babies/

Can anyone help?

Thanks

2

Remember also that most browsers set a minimum font size in their options and if that is set higher than 9px (as it probably would be in most cases) then the font size won’t change.

3

I would highly recommend you use EM or % for the font-size, 9px is FAR too small for most people to be able to accurately read. :slight_smile:

4

I’d agree with what Alex has said - and the reason for using % or em is that it allows people using Internet Explorer to change the size of the text, which you can’t do if it’s set in px.

5

Hey,

I was just exaggerating the font size as i wanted to see if it changed… I was using firebug and it wouldn’t change the font size, think it was a problem with that…

Thanks for the advice anyway :slight_smile:

6

I have purposely set a font size of 9px to see if it makes a difference but it has no effect.

I don’t see a 9px font size anywhere for the left column UL.

On line 170 I see a 12px font size on the “a” and changing it to 9px works.


#leftcolumn li a {  /*line 170*/
color:#333333;
text-decoration:none;
font-size:12px;
}