Tables and table elements not respecting font-size

Creating a custom template with all sorts of lovely objects (div's, p's, and table's).  Everything is respecting their CSS declarations except for the font-size on all table elements.

I've tried doing this in the style section:

table { font-size: 10pt; }

And this:

td { font-size: 10pt; }

I've even tried inline styling:

<td font-size="10pt">Foo</td>

And nothing works.  No changes at all.  I can complete delete my CSS from the style section and nothing changes.  I can delete my inline style and nothing changes.  Both the tr's and td's do not respond.

Any thoughts or guidance?