CSS help needed

[PT Exorcist]

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:

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?

[The Hobo]

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.

[PT Exorcist]

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

tks!

[The Hobo]

Usually, I just do this:

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

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

[PT Exorcist]

ahh that rules