Intrinsics Help

Internet Explorer 4.0 supports CSS on Intrinsic Controls (INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT, and BUTTON elements).

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Inheritance

For compatibility reasons, no style sheet properties inherit into an intrinsic control. This means that setting the font on the document's body will have no effect on the font of the control. Instead, the style must be set directly on the element. For example, to make all input controls 12pt you would do the following:

<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
  // Body does not effect intrinsic controls
  BODY {font-size: 12pt} 
  // Need a rule directly on INPUT elements
  INPUT {font-size: 12pt}
</STYLE>