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The larger and smaller keywords of the font-size property function using the scaling factor of 1.2.


 


<!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'>
body {
    font-size: medium;
}
p#larger {
    font-size: larger;
}
p#larger span {
    font-size: 20px;
}
p#smaller {
    font-size: smaller;
}
p#smaller span {
    font-size: 12px;
}
span {
    background: mistyrose;
}        
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>

        <p id='larger'>
            This font is 1.2 times the default font, or 20 pixels.<br />
            <span>this is a test. </span>
        </p>
        <p id='smaller'>
            This font is 1.2 smaller than the default size, or pixels.<br />
            <span>this is a test. </span>
        </p>
    </body>
</html>