Why is a table not using the body font size even though I haven't set the table font size explicitly?

Question

I have a problem whereby I have set the body font-size to 11px, but tables display font at 16px. I have no idea whats causing this - I have been over the CSS and the output

Answer 1

Make sure you have the DOCTYPE set correctly (W3C will have details) ...

OR

table {
   font-size: 1em;
}

And all will be well ;)