CSS problem

[Jeroen van vliet]

Hello i have gor an css problem, i want to use a fixed font size and i pur
this in the head

<style>

body { font-size: 70%; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; }

td { font-size: 70%; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; }

h4 { font-size: 120%; font-weight: bold; }

..m { font-size: 80%; }

..headings { font-size: 80%; font-weight: bold; }

..title { font-size: 115%; font-weight: bold; }

..inputbox {
border-top:#333333 solid thin;
border-bottom:#333333 solid thin;
border-right:#333333 solid thin
font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;
}

..inputbutton { font-size: 90%; }

</style>

doesnt work, if i change the size in explorer to smaller or bigger, it still
changes

why?

Danny

[David Dorward]

Re: CSS problem

Jeroen van vliet wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello i have gor an css problem, i want to use a fixed font size and i pur[/color]

Then your design is broken.

http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_26_using_relative_font_sizes.html

[color=blue]
> body { font-size: 70%; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; }[/color]
[color=blue]
> doesnt work, if i change the size in explorer to smaller or bigger, it
> still changes[/color]

Becuase 70% of a smaller font size is smaller then 70% of a larger font
size!

--
David Dorward http://david.us-lot.org/

[Philip Ronan]

Re: CSS problem

On 03.8.6 11:57 AM, Jeroen van vliet wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello i have gor an css problem, i want to use a fixed font size and i pur
> this in the head
>
> <style>
>
> body { font-size: 70%; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; }
>[/color]
(more style snipped)[color=blue]
> </style>
>
> doesnt work, if i change the size in explorer to smaller or bigger, it still
> changes
>
> why?
>
> Danny[/color]

This is all rather OT for a Javascript newsgroup. But...

Using a fixed font size is a definite no-no. Maybe your design looks very
pretty on your computer, but have you considered how it might look at 127
dpi on a high resolution display? Or to one of the _millions_ of people out
there who have trouble reading small print?

These days browsers have font settings in their preferences that allow users
to choose a font size that suits them. That would presumably correspond to a
size of "100%". So why are you shrinking all the body text to 70%? Is your
website full of legal small print that you don't want anyone to read?

The ability to change the text size in browsers is very useful. Don't try
and disable it.

Phil

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Philip Ronan
phil.ronanzzz@v irgin.net
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[Ben Nunn]

Re: CSS problem

Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was Philip Ronan
(phil.ronanzzz@ virgin.net), in message
BB56A34B.17708% phil.ronanzzz@v irgin.net who said:
[color=blue]
> Using a fixed font size is a definite no-no. Maybe your design looks
> very pretty on your computer, but have you considered how it might
> look at 127
> dpi on a high resolution display? Or to one of the _millions_ of
> people out there who have trouble reading small print?
>
> These days browsers have font settings in their preferences that
> allow users to choose a font size that suits them. That would
> presumably correspond to a size of "100%". So why are you shrinking
> all the body text to 70%? Is your website full of legal small print
> that you don't want anyone to read?
>
> The ability to change the text size in browsers is very useful. Don't
> try
> and disable it.[/color]


Of course, the logic of using %s for fonts for accessibility purposes goes
out the window when you go any smaller than 100% anyway as people's ability
to read a given % of their chosen default varies with their eyesight as much
as anything else.

BTN