How to change font size in html?

html fonts size

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Solution 1

Give them a class and add your style to the class.

<style>
  p {
    color: red;
  }
  .paragraph1 {
    font-size: 18px;
  }
  .paragraph2 {
    font-size: 13px;
  }
</style>

<p class="paragraph1">Paragraph 1</p>
<p class="paragraph2">Paragraph 2</p>

Check this EXAMPLE

Solution 2

Or add styles inline:

<p style="font-size:18px">Paragraph 1</p>
<p style="font-size:16px">Paragraph 2</p>

Solution 3

If you're just interested in increasing the font size of just the first paragraph of any document, an effect used by online publications, then you can use the first-child pseudo-class to achieve the desired effect.

p:first-child
{
   font-size:   115%; // Will set the font size to be 115% of the original font-size for the p element.
}

However, this will change the font size of every p element that is the first-child of any other element. If you're interested in setting the size of the first p element of the body element, then use the following:

body > p:first-child
{
   font-size:   115%;
}

The above code will only work with the p element that is a child of the body element.

Solution 4

If you want to do this without adding classes...

p:first-child {
    font-size: 16px;
}

p:last-child {
    font-size: 12px;
}

p:nth-child(1) {
    font-size: 16px;
}

p:nth-child(2) {
    font-size: 12px;
}

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Pancake_Senpai

Updated on July 09, 2022

Comments

Pancake_Senpai almost 2 years
I am trying to make a website and I want to know how to change the size of text in a paragraph. I want paragraph 1 to be bigger than paragraph 2. It doesn't matter how much bigger, as long as it's bigger. How do I do this?

My code is below:
```
<html>
<head>
<style>
  p {
    color: red;
  }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Paragraph 1</p>
<p>Paragraph 2</p>
</body>
</html>
```
- Ibrahim Rahimi over 4 years
  
  You can use rem as scale for your font size for more flexibility and it's more dynamic.
Pancake_Senpai almost 11 years

Thanks. It works perfectly. Do you have any idea what the default font size is. I think it's around 16/17px...
Matt Bryant almost 11 years

It's browser specific. If you want a default for across browsers, you should set it yourself.
Matt Bryant almost 11 years

Inline styles are bad!
Ibrahim Rahimi over 4 years

If we combine and configure it with rem and use rem as scale for font size and other related size figures it would be more flexible and dynamic.