I tried this working code:
your HTML:
<input type="text" name="npsize" size="10" maxlength="2" value="small"/><br/><hr/>
<div id="np_drag">font</div>
your javascript:
document.getElementById("np_drag").style.fontSize = document.getElementsByName("npsize")[0].value;
See here here .
Also, please correct me if I am wrong.
EDIT: I changed the fiddle with your correctness with a different answer.
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