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Tommy Olsson and Paul O'Brien

"The Ultimate CSS Reference"

This quirks mode behavior emulates
the buggy behavior of much older browsers. Usually, these properties have to be
specifically applied to the table element, although a better approach would be to
avoid the issue altogether by using a doctype that causes the browser to use standards
mode rendering. To learn more about doctypes and rendering modes, see Standards
Mode, Quirks Mode, and Doctype Sniffing (p. 17).
font-size Inheritance
In the above example, we used a font-size of 20px on the parent div element. That
value was inherited by the div??™s child elements, but can you imagine what would
happen if we set the font-size property of the div element to a percentage size:
div {
font-size: 130%;
}
At first glance, you may be thinking that the p element inside the div will inherit
a font-size of 130%, and will therefore be 130% bigger than its parent. You don??™t
need to worry, though, because this is taken care of for you: the p element will
inherit only the actual computed font size of the parent??”not the 130% scaling
factor??”and will therefore be the same size as the parent.


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