diff --git a/components/script/dom/htmlfontelement.rs b/components/script/dom/htmlfontelement.rs
index 873079bee11..8b30375fbeb 100644
--- a/components/script/dom/htmlfontelement.rs
+++ b/components/script/dom/htmlfontelement.rs
@@ -70,7 +70,11 @@ impl HTMLFontElementMethods for HTMLFontElement {
     make_getter!(Size);
 
     // https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#dom-font-size
-    make_setter!(SetSize, "size");
+    fn SetSize(&self, value: DOMString) {
+        let element = ElementCast::from_ref(self);
+        let length = parse_length(&value);
+        element.set_attribute(&Atom::from_slice("size"), AttrValue::Length(value, length));
+    }
 }
 
 impl VirtualMethods for HTMLFontElement {
@@ -100,7 +104,7 @@ impl VirtualMethods for HTMLFontElement {
         match name {
             &atom!("face") => AttrValue::from_atomic(value),
             &atom!("size") => {
-                let length = parse_legacy_font_size(&value).and_then(|parsed| specified::Length::from_str(&parsed));
+                let length = parse_length(&value);
                 AttrValue::Length(value, length)
             },
             _ => self.super_type().unwrap().parse_plain_attribute(name, value),
@@ -133,3 +137,7 @@ impl HTMLFontElement {
         }
     }
 }
+
+fn parse_length(value: &str) -> Option<specified::Length> {
+    parse_legacy_font_size(&value).and_then(|parsed| specified::Length::from_str(&parsed))
+}
diff --git a/tests/wpt/mozilla/tests/mozilla/htmlfontelement_size_attribute.html b/tests/wpt/mozilla/tests/mozilla/htmlfontelement_size_attribute.html
index 6a17e70e24b..823e8e28c4f 100644
--- a/tests/wpt/mozilla/tests/mozilla/htmlfontelement_size_attribute.html
+++ b/tests/wpt/mozilla/tests/mozilla/htmlfontelement_size_attribute.html
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ var sizes = ["0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8"];
 var testSize = function (attrValue) {
   elem.setAttribute("size", attrValue);
   assert_equals(elem.getAttribute("size"), attrValue);
+  assert_equals(elem.size, attrValue);
+
+  elem.size = attrValue;
+  assert_equals(elem.getAttribute("size"), attrValue);
+  assert_equals(elem.size, attrValue);
 }
 
 var args = [];