How to set default font size to small for a page's body?

Ed Mullen wrote:

Blinky the Shark wrote:
Bergamot wrote:

What's your idea of "bigger" type?


XXXXXXX X X X XXXXXXX
X X X X X
X X X X X
X XXXXXXX X XXXXXXX
X X X X X
X X X X X
X X X X XXXXXXX



Or maybe this?

http://edmullen.net/temp/Clibpoard02.jpg

Dingdingdingding! Winner!

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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Michael Stemper wrote:

but it seems they have first set the BODY size to something small
and then the P size to something larger.

I was wondering what it was.

You find it in
http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/monobook/main.css

body { font: x-small sans-serif; ...
#globalWrapper { font-size: 127%; ...

So just put
#globalWrapper { font-size: 100% !important }
into your userContent.css
:-)

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Scripsit Bergamot:

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

Almost all resize features I've seen give the choice of (at most)
five sizes, generally corresponding to the five sizes selectable via
IE's font size menu.

I don't recall ever coming across such a site. The more common choices
I've seen are as Mr Shagnasty observed, ranging from something near
xx-small to about medium.

OK, I formulated my thought poorly. I meant that there are typically
just five choices, or some fairly small number of choices, which is as
coarse as the IE menu - and often even _less_ useful, since the sizes
are smaller.

If we added a control that has more options, say 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
14, 15, 16 points, then there would be some added value especially
to IE users,

I don't see how.

If you prefer 11 points, for example, this is how you would get it. IE's
menu does not let you choose that "intermediate" size.

If an IE user needs something other than the 5
standard choices it provides, don't you think they would have figured
out how to get the default size they really want, and in a way that
would work on more than 1 site?

No, I don't. Think about a support site for people suffering from rare
diseases. Many of those people might not use the web much if at all,
_except_ for information relevant to the disease. Not being regular
netizens, they might use a computer in a library today, their friend's
computer tomorrow.

Your other statements supporting this font sizing idea are a real
stretch, I think.

It wasn't really my idea. I was actually argumenting against it, when
the above scenario was suggested.

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