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Asked: June 8, 20262026-06-08T07:06:11+00:00 2026-06-08T07:06:11+00:00

I can’t set the font-size of a text input from the style sheet. However,

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I can’t set the font-size of a text input from the style sheet. However, it works fine by setting the style attribute.

This works:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text-htmlcharset=utf-; 8" />
    <title>Test</title>
    <style type="text/css">
#about {
}
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <input id="about" type="input" value="anything" style="font-size:21pt;" />
</body>
</html>

This does not work (font-size is ignored):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text-htmlcharset=utf-; 8" />
    <title>Test</title>
    <style type="text/css">
#about {
    font-size:21pt;
}
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <input id="about" type="input" value="anything" />
</body>
</html>

What am I missing? Surely, you’re not expected to use inline style for all text inputs? That seems pretty tacky and redundant in some cases. Thanks a bunch!

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    2026-06-08T07:06:12+00:00Added an answer on June 8, 2026 at 7:06 am

    Change <style type="text/javascript"> to <style type="text/css">

    You are confusing the browser because it is looking for JavaScript code, but you are feeding it CSS. <script> tags should be used for javascript, and <style> tags for CSS.

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