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HTML / CSS » CSS Attributes and Javascript Style Properties » font size 
Percentage font sizes apply a font size relative to the parent element's font size.
 
<!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: mistyrose;
    font-size: 150%;
}
span span {
    background: pink;
    font-size: 125%;
}        
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>
             
            <span>
                This font size is 50% bigger than that of the
                &lt;p&gt; element.<br />
                <span>
                    This font is 25% bigger than the font used
                    for the parent &lt;span&gt; element.
                </span>
            </span>
        </p>
    </body>
</html>

 
Related examples in the same category
1. 'font-size' Example
2. font-size: 18px
3. font size: small
4. Set font size to 6em
5. Percentange larger
6. Percentange smaller
7. Font size relative selector
8. font-size larger is incremental
9. font-size smaller is incremental
10. font-size: from 24pt to 7pt
11. font-size percent
12. font-size: smaller
13. font-size: larger
14. The larger and smaller keywords of the font-size property function using the scaling factor of 1.2.
15. This font is 1.2 times the default font, or 20 pixels
16. Make font sizes smaller by percentage.
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