Indeed, using shorthand syntax with Netscape/Moz doesn't work. I love
lessons learned the hard way. And the longer you stare at code that doesn't
work, the more likely you will remember it in the future!
Anyway, using the full rule font-size does work, with px, em, and % (didn't
try any others).
But IMHO this is still a bug since the shorthand syntax should be valid. And
the two should be interchangeable in all circumstances.
As for me jumping to conclusions - I am a die hard NN fan, and still use
4.79! (You would laugh if I told ya why, so I'll leave that alone)
thanx for the help
randall
"Brian" <usenet1@mangymutt.com.invalid-remove-this-part> wrote in message
news:%IEcb.430859$cF.134460@rwcrnsc53...[color=blue]
> Randall Sell wrote:[color=green]
> > caption {
> > font: bold 20px;
> > }[/color]
>
> Best not to use pixel sizes for fonts, but you no doubt have been
> reading this group for some time before posting, so you already know
> about this.
>[color=green]
> > <table border=1>
> > <caption>g'day</caption>[/color]
>[color=green]
> > IE will display correctly, and the caption of "g'day" is 20 point, but
> > Netscape seems to ignore it. and I get the standard font size.
> >
> > If I add a style called "mycaption' as:
> >
> > .mycaption {
> > font-size: 20px;
> > }[/color]
>
> You have changed the selector from an element to a class, and *also*
> changed the declaration from the shorthand font property to the
> font-size property.
>[color=green]
> > and change the <caption> to use this like:
> >
> > <caption class="mycaption">g'day</caption>
> >
> > Then both browsers (IE and Netscape/Mozilla) display correctly.[/color]
>
> Ok. But font <> font-size. The font property allows you to set lots
> of things at once; you have chosen to set only weight and size in your
> declaration, which is allowed, but will reset all other properties to
> their initial values. You have put them in the correct order, but
> have skipped font-style and font-variant. I don't know how the values
> work when you skip certain properties. I have read the css2 spec, as
> you no doubt did. I frankly cannot tell if order even matters. Some
> of the examples put values out of order.
>[color=green]
> > So is IE displaying correctly because it is being more "lenient"
> > is something I am doing wrong, or is Netscape just a pile of s**t.[/color]
>
> I'd not charge that Mozilla 1.x is a pile of crap, nor that it is
> buggy, unless I were really experienced with css. Not even as an
> either/or proposition. I'd assume that I was wrong until being sure
> that it was the browser. But that's me.
>[color=green]
> > Personally I suspect the latter, but will reserve judgement
> > until I hear from one of you experts.[/color]
>
> I don't know about being an expert, but I can troubleshoot. And the
> first thing I notice is that your experiment was not carefully controlled.
>[color=green]
> > ps, I should mention I also tried a more specific selector like
> > table caption {
> > font: bold 20px;
> > }[/color]
>
> Now you have gone back to the short-hand selector. To conduct an
> experiment, change only *one* thing at a time. Specifically, try
>
> caption {
> font-size: 20px ;
> }
>
> and tell us what happens.
>
> --
> Brian
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