<small></small>

Render text in a small font.

• Netscape 2, 3, 4, 6, 7
• Mozilla 1
• Firefox 1
• Internet Explorer 3, 4, 5, 6
• Opera 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Safari 1
• WebTV / MSNTV
• AvantGo Windows CE
• HTML 4.0
• XHTML 1.0: XHTML Presentation Module

• class (required)
• dir (required)
• id (required)
• lang (required)
• onclick (required)
• ondblclick (required)
• onkeypress (required)
• onkeydown (required)
• onkeyup (required)
• onmousedown (required)
• onmouseout (required)
• onmouseover (required)
• onmouseup (required)
• style (required)
• title (required)

Contains text information. The following tags are valid within the <small></small> tags:
a, abbr, acronym, applet, b, basefont, bdo, small, br, button, cite, code, dfn, em, font, i, iframe, img, input, kbd, label, map, object, q, s, samp, script, select, small, span, strike, strong, sub, sup, textarea, tt, u, var

The <small></small> tag is valid within the following tags:
a, abbr, acronym, address, applet, b, bdo, small, blockquote, body, button, caption, center, cite, code, dd, del, dfn, div, dt, em, fieldset, font, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, i, iframe, ins, kbd, label, legend, li, noframes, noscript, object, p, q, s, samp, small, span, strike, strong, sub, sup, td, th, tt, u, var

• the <small></small> tag

  <small>This text is smaller</small> than this text.

• nested <small> tags make each nesting a little smallger:

  <small><small>This text is the smallest</small> but this text is smaller</small> than this text.

• It is recommended that you avoid this tag in favor of style sheets.
• Nested <small></small> tags are fine, but style sheets are easier to use and understand. Plus, not all browsers support mulitple levels of the small tag.
• If you insert a <small></small> tag over text that is already font size 1, it will not get any smaller.

• <big></big>
• Form vs. Function

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