Why does font-size only work when I set background-color on a button?

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Published on 2012-09-27T02:21:03Z Indexed on 2012/09/27 3:37 UTC
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I am in Rails 3.2.6, on Chrome.

I have the following code in my html.erb file:

<div id="beta">
    <%= form_tag({}, {:id => "id_search"}) do %>
        ID: <%= text_field_tag "beta_id" %>
        <%= submit_tag "Go" %>
    <% end %>
</div>

When I set the font-size to 24pt in my CSS file, the text field changes properly, but the button doesn't change at all. I pulled it up in my Developer Tools, and it was getting the CSS property, but just not changing its font size. Even when I put !important, nothing happened. I couldn't change the font-family either.

JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/R5CXg/

Changing other properties worked. When I changed the background-color property, the button suddenly turned square instead of round, and popped into the correct font-size and font-family.

Why was this the case and how can I work around it?

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