February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
826 pages
63h 42m
English
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Relative Size Keywords
There are two relative keywords: larger and smaller. They are used to shift the size of
the text relative to the parent object according to the seven-step
absolute-size scale (using the same scaling factor). For example, if the
text of a paragraph is set to large,
applying the keyword smaller to a
child em element would cause the
emphasized text to display at medium
size. Figure 18-4’s examples
use relative size keywords.
There are two relative keywords: <span style="font-size: larger">larger</span> and <span style="font-size: smaller">smaller</span>. They are used...
Figure 18-4. Relative size keywords