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Make font sizes smaller by percentage.


 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
                      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'>
    <head>
        <title>font-size</title>
        <style rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
span {
    background: pink;
    font-size: 75%;
}
span span {
    background: gold;
    font-size: 75%;
}        
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>
            
            <span>
                This font size is 25% smaller than that of the
                &lt;p&gt; element.<br />
                <span>
                    This font is 25% smaller than the font used
                    for the parent &lt;span&gt; element.
                </span>
            </span>
        </p>
    </body>
</html>