Topic: CSS textsize (liquid format)

Hi,

i am developing a site for a friend that uses a lot of absolute and percentages.... This way the site will adjust to every windowsize...

BUT; i can't seem to do the same with the text. As an IMG i say it is 90% absolete and it will autoadjust. a textsize of 90% will take a 90% size of the normal size and not adjust that when the window size changes. Can someone tell me how to program this?

thnx,
Dennis

It is my pleasure to reply for your first thread as first person from this forum.
Nice to see you, dvvelzen! How are you going?
Well, sorry to disappoint you but this thread is the one which I have been wondering like you for ages.
I guess we cannot do this.
Does anybody know if it is possible or not?
If so, plesae let us know.
Cya.

Hiroki Kozai

To my knowledge, no - it's not possible with HTML.

Something like Flash can do that though....

DL is right, there is no way to do this in HTML.

The reason it doesn't work is that 90% is 90% of the default font size, which has nothing to do with the window size. I don't think what you want to is possible because I don't think you can peg the text size to the window size...

[Edit: Ah, yes, I was trying to be helpful... One thing you could do would be to detect the window size with JavaScript and then switch to a style sheet with the appropriate font for that size--for example, 10pt for anything below a certain point, 11pt for the next range, etc. I wouldn't really recommend this method, but it's the only way I can think of to do what you're trying to do.]

[Edit2: OK, I'll get my act together eventually. What I would actually recommend is just set the text using percentages and then let the user decide if it's too big or too small--give them control over the font size.]

[This message has been edited by Suho1004 (edited 06-27-2003).]

[This message has been edited by Suho1004 (edited 06-27-2003).]

isn't there a font size that is directly proportional to the size of the text element? 'em' is it?

check here: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_units.asp


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yes, but that is not relative to the window size...wouldn't make any difference in this case...

Maybe I'm missing the point, but it seems to me you should be able to pick a window size to design the page to, for example 600x800. Then when the user loads the page, query the window size and calculate a ratio of the actual window size to your standard window size. Then use JavaScript to set the text size based on that ratio.

-- not necessarily stoned... just beautiful.

Look no further than this...
our very own Doc's former frontpage... http://www.ozones.com/ourWalls/

This resizes text based on windowsize (and d*mn how I love this version...)
/Dan

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This may also be useful: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/javascript_code_library/wm_scl_fnt/?tw=reference&category=layout_css