CSS help needed

i want the "regular text" of my page to have 8pt in size and to have color #696969..i've tried to put the following:

Code:

---

body
{
    color:#696969;font-family:Verdana; font-size:8pt;
}

---

for the color and font it works just fine but to the font size it doesnt..what am i doing wrong?

Is the text inside any other tag, like span or td? I know that if you just set it to the body, and then have text within a table cell, it will control the font but not the size in IE.

Post the code around the text that isn't sizing properly and maybe we could figure it out.

ah yea its inside tag and cells! that should be the problem..ill try to fix it up

tks!

Usually, I just do this:

Code:

---

body, td
{
    color:#696969;font-family:Verdana; font-size:8pt;
}

---

And that will set the default for the body and table elements.

ahh that rules