In IE, I can go to View > Text Size> and set the size of text on the page. However, on many pages, it does nothing. Does CSS fix the size of the text? If so, I guess this is also what you would use to keep tables with text within the cells from breaking apart?

Thanks.

IE will change the size of any text specified in relative units, but not fixed units. 'em' and 'ex' are realative, while 'px' is fixed. So text specified as 12px will stay the same, however text specified as 1.2em will change with the text size in IE.

Firefox, on the other hand, will change the text size regardless of what units you use.

Did you know you could hold Ctrl and scroll your mouse wheel to alter the size of the text on a page? Pretty cool I thought.

Regarding your question, instead of pixel sizes, if you put in your body:

body
{
font-size: 80%;
}

That is the equivilant of font-size:13px; (the most popular size). You will notice that you can now increase the font-size in most browsers.

Note: to do sizes larger than the body, you would do the following:

h1 (for example)
{
font-size: 190%;
}

Hope that helps

"IE will change the size of any text specified in relative units, but not fixed units."

In my code i have <font size="2"> but the IE setting still affects it for some reason?

Thats a bit of an unknown to me... Firstly I always specify units cos otherwise the results can be unpredictable, secondly, I never use the fot tag...

Do you want it to be fixed? If so use <font size="13px"> (or other fixed unit) If not use <font size="80%"> (or other variable unit). I think it should still work in the font tag.