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multiple text sizes in one sentence ?
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Dale,

multiple text sizes in one sentence ?

Yes.

You could use the old HTML tag method, or the more modern CSS approach.

What did you try to find a solution yourself ? (hint: "HTML text size")

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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Dale wrote:

multiple text sizes in one sentence ?

<p style="font-size:16px">Not a <span style="font-size:24px">big</span> problem</p>

or:

<p>Not a <span style="font-size:1.5em">big</span> problem</p>
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On 6/28/2026 8:46 AM, R.Wieser wrote:

Dale,

multiple text sizes in one sentence ?

Yes.

You could use the old HTML tag method, or the more modern CSS approach.

What did you try to find a solution yourself ? (hint: "HTML text size")

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

Had a look in W3Schools.

Didn't find the answer. Could have been a lack of a good search.

Prefer HTML but would consider CSS.

Thank You !
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Siard <saylor259@mailbox.org> wrote or quoted:

<p style="font-size:16px">Not a <span style="font-size:24px">big</span> problem</p>

That reminds me of HTML 3.2:

BIG places text in a large font
SMALL places text in a small font

. And here's the rant by a hypothetical HTML 3.2 engineer:

|You young coders think you're so sophisticated with your
|bloated attributes, but look at that hideous snippet: you are
|literally hardcoding a rigid, pixel-exact physical size right
|into your content! That completely destroys the soul of the
|Web. Back in my day with HTML 3.2, <BIG> and <SMALL> were
|beautifully abstract and truly scalable; they didn't force a
|dynamic screen into a static 24-pixel cage, they simply told
|the browser, "Hey, make this structurally larger or smaller
|relative to whatever font the user prefers." It was semantic,
|elegant, and infinitely more adaptable to unknown screens
|than messy, inline CSS clutter that confuses styling with raw
|structure!

.


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On 6/28/2026 8:25 PM, Dale wrote:

multiple text sizes in one sentence ?

You talking HTML web-pages or web-forum formatting codes?

Or maybe ... you talking about Wordstar for DOS? :)
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On 6/28/2026 10:23 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 6/28/2026 8:25 PM, Dale wrote:

multiple text sizes in one sentence ?

You talking HTML web-pages or web-forum formatting codes?

Or maybe ... you talking about Wordstar for DOS? :)

Thank You !

HTML.

Three <h2></h2> and three <p></p> in one line.

Not three lines.

One size of text isn't as neat.

Here is the line with one size of text:

The SUPERNATURAL (orderly, ritual) turns the NATURAL (disorder,
volatility) into the SUPER (order, rite).

I want the things in the parenthesis to be <p> with the things outside
the parenthesis to be <h2>.
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Dale,

Didn't find the answer. Could have been a lack of a good search.

When I put my hint (HTML text size) into DDG I get a page full with both CSS as well as HTML tag related results.

-- the top one being https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font_size.asp a bit lower down https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_font.asp .

Mind you, I took the above search terms from your own post ...

And I see you got several CSS related responses

Here is the line with one size of text:

The SUPERNATURAL (orderly, ritual) turns the NATURAL (disorder,
volatility) into the SUPER (order, rite).

I want the things in the parenthesis to be <p> with the things outside the parenthesis to be <h2>.

Start with wrapping the whole line in a pair of H2 tags. Do NOT use P tags, as those break the sentence into multiple lines (strong suggestion: try it with P tags anyway and see for yourself).

Than use sian's second example (the one using SPAN pairs) for what you now have in parenthesis

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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Dale, 2026-06-28 14:25:

multiple text sizes in one sentence ?

Using <span> to have parts of the sentence in a different format:


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.bigger {
font-size: 1.5em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Some text <span class="bigger">with big word</span> and normal again.</p> </body>
</html>

Also see:

<https://codepen.io/awelzel/pen/xbgLQKb>
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On 6/28/2026 11:52 PM, Dale wrote:

On 6/28/2026 10:23 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 6/28/2026 8:25 PM, Dale wrote:

multiple text sizes in one sentence ?

You talking HTML web-pages or web-forum formatting codes?

Or maybe ... you talking about Wordstar for DOS? :)

Thank You !

Before answering your question, let's
side-track a bit about the 3 things I
mentioned:

Say you want bold text:

Wordstar 4.0 (can't remember): <B>text<B>

HTML: <b>text</b>

web-forum: [b]text[/b]

Notice the wrap-symbols. And...

Good nite, from Hong Kong Time Zone. :)
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On Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:59:39 -0400, Dale wrote:

Prefer HTML but would consider CSS.

You know the old song about rCLlove and marriagerCY going together like a rCLhorse and carriagerCY?

That applies to HTML and CSS, too. Nowadays, you canrCOt have one
without the other.
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On Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:53:04 +0200, Siard wrote:

Dale wrote:

multiple text sizes in one sentence ?

<p style="font-size:16px">Not a <span style="font-size:24px">big</span> problem</p>

or:

<p>Not a <span style="font-size:1.5em">big</span> problem</p>

<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Properties/font-size>
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Properties/font-size-adjust>
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On 6/29/2026 7:12 AM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

You know the old song about rCLlove and marriagerCY going together like a rCLhorse and carriagerCY?

That's because your "love" is about "horse"?

Modern "horse" is referring to cars?

You chose "marriage" because your perspective
spouse offered a car? :)

So what do yuo all love? Will you use a marriage
bonding to get something you loved? Is this a
good idea?
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On 6/29/2026 2:27 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Good nite, from Hong Kong Time Zone. :)

HKTZ <-- what does it look like?
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Do NOT use P tags, as those break the sentence into multiple lines

When re-reading it noticed the above is a bit confusing, as I forgot a few words :

Do NOT use P tags *inside the H2 tags*, as those break the sentence into multiple lines.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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Dale, 2026-06-28 14:59:

On 6/28/2026 8:46 AM, R.Wieser wrote:

Dale,

multiple text sizes in one sentence ?

Yes.

You could use the old HTML tag method, or the more modern CSS approach.

What did you try to find a solution yourself ? (hint: "HTML text size")

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

Had a look in W3Schools.

Didn't find the answer. Could have been a lack of a good search.

Prefer HTML but would consider CSS.

HTML is *markup* and *not* "design". HTML tags do *not* define visual
text sizes, but the *structure* of a document. It completely depends on
the browser how to display this.

Also within a sentence you can not change the text size at all without
CSS. There is no "make this word bigger" element like <big>text</big>
and using <h1> will create a new *block* level element for a *heading*
and not "visually big text".
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On 6/30/2026 2:45 PM, Arno Welzel wrote:

Also within a sentence you can not change the text size at all without
CSS. There is no "make this word bigger" element like <big>text</big>
and using <h1> will create a new *block* level element for a *heading*
and not "visually big text".

You can use relative font size, right?
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Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets,alt.html:

On 6/30/2026 2:45 PM, Arno Welzel wrote:

Also within a sentence you can not change the text size at all without
CSS. There is no "make this word bigger" element like <big>text</big>
and using <h1> will create a new *block* level element for a *heading*
and not "visually big text".

You can use relative font size, right?

How is that relevant? Can you show an example which fits in the
context?

TY
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Supsersedes for clarification

Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets,alt.html:

On 6/30/2026 2:45 PM, Arno Welzel wrote:

Also within a sentence you can not change the text size at all without
CSS. There is no "make this word bigger" element like <big>text</big>
and using <h1> will create a new *block* level element for a *heading*
and not "visually big text".

You can use relative font size, right?

How is that relevant? Can you show an example which fits in the
context?

As I understand it, you have to specify the font size in any way you
can. You should anyway not stick to points or other units when
arbitrary programs shall display your HTML as is deemed appropriate
by their user.

This does rCo however rCo not relate to anything that Arno correctly
stated above.

The meaning of rCLrelativerCY is relative. Here is the example that I
was waiting for:
-----------------
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>font size</title>
</head>
<body style="font-size: 13pt;">

<!-- From here on, everything is rCLrelativerCY -->

<p>Normal 13pt text and <span style="font-size: smaller;">smaller
text</span> and <span style="font-size: 1.3em;">bigger
text</span> and back to normalrCa</p>

<div id='page_dt'>
2026-06-30
</div>
</body>
</html>
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On Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:25:06 -0400, Dale wrote:

multiple text sizes in one sentence ?

Ya. Go ahead! You've got my permission.
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