Following advice in The 6 Most Important CSS Techniques You Need To Know, I set my body's font-size to 62.5%, the container div's font-size to 1.4 em (slight variation from the article). p.tags and p.published's font-size is set to 1em.
However, this doesn't work for me. Both the normal text and text in p.tags and p.published comes out to be the same size (16.8px as computed by Firebug). Can you explain why my code isn't working? I am testing in Firefox 3.6.3. The sample page shown by the author works just fine in the very same browser.
I've reproduced the entire page below—apologies for the length of it, but I thought it better to not leave out anything.
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-family: Georgia, "Century Schoolbook", "Times New Roman", Serif;
font-size: 62.5%;
background-color: #2B3856; /* Dark slate blue */
}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Tahoma, "Sans Serif";
color: #2B3856;
margin-top: 2px;
}
h1 a, h2 a, h3 a, h4 a, h5 a, h6 a {
text-decoration: none;
color: #2B3856;
}
h1 a:hover, h2 a:hover, h3 a:hover, h4 a:hover, h5 a:hover, h6 a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
div#container {
width: 800px;
font-size: 1.4em;
margin: 5px auto;
background-color: #E3E4FA; /* Lavender */
}
#sidebar {
width: 200px;
float: right;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
#sidebar div {
padding: 0 5px 5px;
}
#sidebar div.shadowbox { margin-right: 5px; }
#content {
width: 600px;
float: left;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
#header {
/*background-color: white;*/
background-color: #2B3856; /* #E3E4FA; Lavender */
margin-bottom: 5px;
height: 100px;
}
#header h1 {
color: #B93B8F; /* Plum */
line-height: 100px;
text-align: center;
font-size: 45px;
}
#description {
color: #7D1B7E /* Dark Orchid */
}
a {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #153E7E;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
}
div#posts {
padding: 0px;
font-size: 1.2em;
margin: 0px;
}
div#posts div.post {
padding: 5px;
margin: 0px 5px 15px 5px;
}
p.tags, p.published {
font-size: 1em;
}
.shadowbox {
background: repeat 0 0 url('http://www.jawsalgorhythmics.com/images/darkness-100x100-10pct.png');
}
.justifycenter { text-align: center; }
.floatright { float:right; }
.floatleft { float: left; }
.clearright { clear: right; }
.clearleft { clear:left; }
.clearboth { clear: both; }
.halfsidebarwidth { width: 82px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
<h1>Odds 'n Ends</h1>
</div> <!-- header -->
<div id="sidebar">
<div class="shadowbox">
<br /><p class="justifycenter"><img width="64" height="64" src="{PortraitURL-64}" /></p>
<div class="floatleft halfsidebarwidth"><a href="/archive" class="archive">Archives</a></div>
<div class="floatleft halfsidebarwidth"><a href="{RSS}" class="rss">RSS</a></div>
<div class="clearboth"></div>
</div>
</div> <!-- sidebar -->
<div id="content">
<div id="posts">
<div class="post shadowbox">
<span class="quote">
"It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop."
<div class="source">Wisdom of <a href="#" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius">Confucius</a></div>
</span>
<p class="tags">Tags: #<a href="#" title="http://demo.tumblr.com/tagged/wisdom">wisdom</a>&nbsp; </p>
<p class="published">Posted: Nov 08, 2006 at 2:27 pm
<a href="#" title="http://demo.tumblr.com/post/236/it-does-not-matter-how-slow-you-go-so-long-as-you">Permalink</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#" title="http://tumblr.com/xr06k">Short URL</a></p>
</div>
</div> <!-- posts -->
</div> <!-- content -->
<div class="clearboth"></div>
<div id="footer" style="text-align: justify;">
<h1>The footer</h1>
</div>
</div> <!-- container -->
</body>
</html>