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CSS - font-size
Description
The font-size property affects the size of an element's text.
Possible Values
xx-small − Sets the element's text to be a size smaller than that which results from the value x-small.
x-small − Sets the element's text to be a size smaller than that which results from the value small.
small − Sets the element's text to be a size smaller than that which results from the value medium.
medium − Sets the element's text to be a size smaller than that which results from the value large, and larger than that which results from the value small.
large − Sets the element's text to be a size larger than that which results from the value medium.
x-large − Sets the element's text to be a size larger than that which results from the value large.
xx-large − Sets the element's text to be a size larger than that which results from the value x-large.
larger − Sets the element's text to be larger than that of its parent.
smaller − Sets the element's text to be smaller than that of its parent.
length − Any permitted length value. Negative length values are not permitted for font-size.
percentage − Sets the element's text size relative to that of its parent.
Applies to
All the HTML elements.
DOM Syntax
object.style.fontSize = "12pt";
Example
Here is the example using this property −
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p style = "font-size:20px;">
This font size is 20 pixels
</p>
<p style = "font-size:small;">
This font size is small
</p>
<p style = "font-size:large;">
This font size is large
</p>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result −