Ok, I give up. What the secret to small type size?

[iadr]

I wanted to figure out how to use the small type used by a few members as a method of delinating a 'joking aside'.

I'm semi passable in hand coded HTML, though not really with CSS, but when I view the code for one useage of the small type I see only:

<span style="font-size: 8px; line-height: normal"> ___text___ </span>

a google serch on "span style" doesn't give me the key for this board fast enough for me (actually I was pretty determined, just saying that 'cause I'd rather be thought lazy than stupid. Or something. ;) Obviously I'm missing something and am running out of patience trying combinations of disabled HTML & BBCode etc. I think there must be a trigger I'm missing that was contained somewhere in the working code I viewed.

[stylngle2003]

you mean like this??
its in the dropdown list rigth above the reply window...
i could even go really frickin big if i wanted to

[iadr]

trying it out

However I've seen it done more than one way. (I think, I'm posting and viewing code next)

[iadr]

Obviously it works. Dunno how I missed that. Thanks

But if anyone knows and is bored and wants to explain why my hand code efforts failed I'd be curious. Hoping you don't have to explain html/css/php/mysql etc to make it make sense.
My viewing of the code for what I just typed shows to be the same as I started with will not function on its own.
Call me overly curious....

[towerymt]

First possibility is that HTML is turned off. If you click http://forums.turbobricks.com/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/reply.gif (http://forums.turbobricks.com/posting.php?mode=reply&t=15735) and look under Options (below the emoticons), it tells you the status of HTML, BBCode, and Smiles. You can change these preferences from your profile (accessible from the forum options drop down at the top, which I expect you already know).

<font style="font-size: 20px; line-height: normal">This should be size 20</font>

<font style="font-size: 24; line-height: normal">and this is size 24</font>

edit: hard code worked by changing "span" to "font." The "px" after the font size made no difference, as you can see in the code. I don't know what "span" is supposed to do, but I do know the font tag, so I thought I'd give it a shot and it worked.

[boostdemon]

span and style are the replacement for font according to WC3

[Dr. Volvo]

span and style are the replacement for font according to WC3
shouldn't it be "W3C"? :e-shrug:

[boostdemon]

yes sorry, typo on my part