headers and ie6

[johnnyblotter]

My site has been set up with the right links bar occuring first in the html (after the header image). I did something silly and used <h4> for each section header of the links. I did this because it displayed the size I wanted. However,when I reset the text size in ems, px, whatever, IE now will not resize any text within header tags. Do I need to start with <h1> and proceed from there to fix this? I know that's the right way, but wondering if that's stopping IE from resizing the text...

I'm thinking the correct approach would be to give those section headers a class, and resize the text that way, if necessary...then I can start with <h1> further down the list.

any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

[toicontien]

Internet Explorer doesn't allow you to resize text via the View > Text Size menu if you specify any font sizes in px, pt, cm, in -- basically any unit of measure aside from em, % or a font size keyword like small or larger. Even if you set the BODY font size to 10px, let's say, and then you set an H1 tag to 2em, IE-Win won't resize the text. 2em merely means "twice the font size of the containing element" -- which would be 20px. And since it inherits the unit of measure, it won't resize the text.