Anchor text links are smaller than regular links

But only in Win XP IE6

[Lorel]

I'm working on a site that has the anchor text links 1 size smaller than regular link text. This only shows up in Win XP IE6. I have the body text set in Arial at 12 px and same for regular links.

I tried setting a class called Anchor for the anchor links but then they were much larger than the other text and underlined, etc. So I took it back out. It seems to me I shouldn't have to do this.

Anyone else experience anchor link text being smaller than regular text in Win XP IE 6 and know of a workaround?

[Lorel]

I figured it out. I didn't have a complete doc type on the affected pages. Those pages with the complete doc type were ok.

[tedster]

Was this an inheritance issue from the containing parent block, then?

[Lorel]

No. The very first paragraph on the page had affected links (only controls for link size were in the CSS file). The only change made was putting in a valid (instead of shortened) Doc Type. Other pages that had the full length Doc Type were not affected . I had designed the site with a full length doc type and later messed up the template so all new pages were affected with this problem. CSS and HTMl validated on all pages.

[edited by: Lorel at 2:42 am (utc) on Mar. 30, 2007]