Lea Verou • 6/24/2021

Inherit ancestor font-size, for fun and profit

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This CSS tutorial explains how to inherit font sizes from ancestor elements (like grandparents) rather than direct parents using type-relative units like 'em'. It covers real-world scenarios where this technique is necessary, including speech bubble components and working with <optgroup> elements in selects, providing solutions for maintaining scalable, DRY CSS code.

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