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pdavis27104
03-19-2003, 10:38 AM
Hi Everyone!! I hope someone can answer this question for me. I was working on a webpage and just happened to notice if I increase the font size by going to view and than text size in IE 6 that my webpage looks totally off. Is there a way to have a webpage formatted a particular way and it stay that way or reset itself to format to the users configuration and still retain some since?? I do appreciate it!!

Vladdy
03-19-2003, 11:19 AM
No, you should design your page so that it can be viewed with whichever setting the user prefers.

pdavis27104
03-19-2003, 12:28 PM
Is there any way to clarify your statement? As in an example of how to set it to work w/ whichever settings? I do appreciate it.

Vladdy
03-19-2003, 01:09 PM
Your page should be laid out in a way that makes it presentable to a user regardless of their font size setting (or any other setting for that matter).
Few common ways to accomplish it are:
- separate content from layout (use CSS not tables leave alone frames)
- design the page so that it flows with the change in font size and browser window size.
- as an advanced feature you can add alternative stylesheets that allow to adjust the size of graphical elements and text size.
You can look at the site I'm currently working on as an example: http://www.klproductions.com/home.html