How to set the font size of text with CSS
The code below shows you how to set the font size of text with CSS.
<!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" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Web Development Tutorials.com</title>
<style type="text/css">
p
{ font-size: 100%; }
p.one
{ font-size: 150%; }
p.two
{ font-size: 50%; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>
This is a paragraph with a font size of "100%".
</p>
<p class="one">
This is a paragraph with a font size of "150%".
</p>
<p class="two">
This is a paragraph with a font size of "50%".
</p>
</body>
</html>
The code above creates the paragraphs below.
This is a paragraph with a font size of "100%".
This is a paragraph with a font size of "150%".
This is a paragraph with a font size of "50%".
Use the text editor below to practice what you have learned.