p font size: absolute measurements
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!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"> <head> <title>CSS Example</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <style type='text/css'> p {font-family:arial; font-size:12pt;} /* absolute measurements */ p.xx-small {font-size:xx-small;} p.x-small {font-size:x-small;} p.small {font-size:small;} p.medium {font-size:medium;} p.large {font-size:large;} p.x-large {font-size:x-large;} p.xx-large {font-size:xx-large;} </style> </head> <body> <h1>Absolute sizes</h1> <p class="xx-small">This absolute font size is xx-small</p> <p class="x-small">This absolute font size is x-small</p> <p class="small">This absolute font size is small</p> <p class="medium">This absolute font size is medium</p> <p class="large">This absolute font size is large</p> <p class=" x-large">This absolute font size is x-large</p> <p class="xx-large">This absolute font size is xx-large</p> </body> </html>