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- What is it?
- This tag applies a smaller size font formatting to text (in
relation to the default font size.) It is the HTML 3 answer to the
FONT tag (introduced by Netscape and Internet Explorer which runs
counter to general HTML ideology of divorcing display details from
content.) SMALL and its companion tag BIG answer the needs of having
alternate character level tags for controlling font size while also
not being specific in HOW to display the tag (A virtual style tag.)
The new HTML 3.2 draft specification, however, supports both font
size control mechanisms.
Style Sheet Attributes
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- Class
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE3B1
| M | N4B2
- Required? No
- Description:
This represents an assigned semantic classification grouping(s) for the
current tag.
- Values:
Given as a comma separated list of alphanumeric characters. Class names
may contain spaces (multiple consecutive spaces treated as a single
space.)
- ID
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE3B1
| M | N4B2
- Required? No
- Description:
This assigns an alpha-numeric identifier that is unique
to this tag instance. Style sheets may use this attribute to reference
the current instance of this tag. Hyperlinks may also use this identifier
to serve as a destination.
- Values:
An alphanumeric string - initial character must be a letter followed
by alphabetic characters, digits, "-" or "."
characters. The allowable set of alpha-characters is restricted to the
A-Z and a-z set.
- Style
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE3B1
| M | N4B3
- Required? No
- Description:
This attribute is a text string that provides rendering style
information for the current tag.
- Values:
Please see the description of
inline styles for more
information on how to use this attribute and its
possible values.
- Example
- <small>text</small>
- Parent Model
-
%Anchors% |
%Virtual
Formatting% |
%Physical
Formatting% |
%Block Format
Parent% |
%Multimedia
Parent% |
<Body> |
<Address> |
<Basefont> |
<Heading> |
<Marquee>
Exceptions: <Pre>
- Content Model
- %Text% |
%Anchors% |
%Virtual Formatting% |
%Physical Formatting% |
%Line Break Content% |
%Multimedia Content%
Tips & Tricks
- Although SMALL is an official tag, more control is allowed by the
FONT SIZE tag that is also supported by
HTML 3.2 and many browsers.
Browser Peculiarities
- The equivalent FONT SIZE value for SMALL text generally used by
browsers is 2 (default font size is usually 3.)
- If you conflict this tag with a BIG tag it appears that most
browsers will render the result as SMALL every time (nesting order
does not matter.)
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