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Rick_Garrison
08-30-2003, 08:09 PM
Hello,
I'm having troubles with the font size for my website. My screen setting has the font size set at large (125% the normal font size) and, although on my computer, the font size looked fine, on most other computers, the font size was somewhat small. So, I simply scaled down my font size so that the font would look good on most computers.
However, I heard about something that could make the font size stay the same on all browsers/computers. Is this possible?
In my microsoft frontpage, rather than using "pt" for font size, I selected "normal"- this seemed to make the font look the same whenever I would try to increase or decrease the size in Internet Explorere- would this fix my problem?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
PeOfEo
08-30-2003, 08:14 PM
Did you already try css for font size?
<p style="font-size: 150%"> You could try using %'s and see if that will do what you want since % resize I thought they might work.
Rick_Garrison
08-30-2003, 08:35 PM
i havent used CSS and the font percentage seems to make my problem worse- I just want the font size to look the same on my computer and on everyone elses computer. Any more help?
PeOfEo
08-30-2003, 11:48 PM
This is weird... You have tried all of the following right? pt % px and just the 1,2,3,-1,-2,-3 stuff correct? If none of them work maybe you should just change the font settings on your machine when you design and set them back when you are not designing.
David Harrison
08-31-2003, 01:29 PM
If you want the font size to stay the same size no matter what do this:
style="font-size:40px;"
Change the 40 to whatever looks right. To see an example of this in action check out this new site (http://www.websamba.com/testorg/) I'm currently making. Not all of the links lead somewhere yet but that's not the point, try changing the text size in IE and nothing will happen.
Sorry lavalamp, but Moz. can change the font size
David Harrison
08-31-2003, 02:01 PM
I had a feeling someone might point that out, but then I did say:...try changing the text size in IE and nothing will happen.
Ok, you did say IE, but should you fix the font size?
What about users who are visually impared. They might want a larger font size.
13% of users ... ;)
David Harrison
08-31-2003, 02:17 PM
Well you could always make sure that you fix the font-size to a suitable size, or you could rely on the fact that visually impared people have screen magnifyers.
Charles
08-31-2003, 02:35 PM
Strictly speaking you shouldn't fix the font size, but one would think that it's pretty darn close to being a victimless crime. People who need to change the screen size to see the words can always just use Opera. It's a better browser anyway. But then I think of my own dear mother. She wouldn't know how to go about getting Opera if it even occurred to her to do so. And the entire bank of computers in my public library all use MSIE. No, thanks to Microsoft you'll need to eschew fixing the font size.
David Harrison
08-31-2003, 02:40 PM
B*ll*cks. Would it be OK to offer a huge enlarged font version but still have the default font size as normal?
Charles
08-31-2003, 02:46 PM
Originally posted by lavalamp
B*ll*cks. Would it be OK to offer a huge enlarged font version but still have the default font size as normal? A far better solution would be to rid the world of MSIE.
David Harrison
08-31-2003, 02:51 PM
Lol, maybe when I get older I'll infiltrate Microsoft and make them build a better, standards compliant, browser.
I take it that it would be OK to offer a large font alternative.
PeOfEo
08-31-2003, 05:36 PM
I dont have a problem with ie excepts for its stupid css bugs, it causes me to have to do twice as much work on my sites.
Rick_Garrison
08-31-2003, 08:43 PM
Well, I used CSS in Dreamweaver, and it seems to have fixed the problem- but is CSS supported by many browsers?
PeOfEo
08-31-2003, 08:48 PM
It is supported well by all newer browsers except for ie, Ie has a lot of css bugs, but in this instance it will work fine. IE bugs show their ugly faces when you try to make css layouts. Mozilla and opera display css perfectly so does ns7 firebird and most other browsers. Older browsers might crap out but when that happens it usually goes into that plain left aligned text mode.
Rick_Garrison
08-31-2003, 09:54 PM
If all I'm gonna do is font size, will that work on most browsers?
PeOfEo
08-31-2003, 10:39 PM
Yes, all widely used browsers will have it (which includes the last few versions of ie, mozilla, opera, netscape etc)