Preserved Topic: Text that does not change size????? (Page 1 of 1) |
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Bipolar (III) Inmate From: Derbyshire, UK |
posted 08-11-2000 12:36
Hi guys, it's me again. Something that has only just occurred to me when building a site the other day. How do you set the size of text so that it will NOT change when people using IE5 for example change the text size (small, medium, large etc.) This is messing up my design because if text is viewed in large it becomes too big and does not fit in with the background. I tried specifiying the pt size of the text but that does not seem to have made any difference. |
Maniac (V) Lord Mad Scientist Sovereign of all the lands Ozone and just beyond that little green line over there... From: Stockholm, Sweden |
posted 08-11-2000 18:28
OK; I do this all the time, and it does piss off some folks who prefer their text big as c*****n, due to execcively high resolution on their dinky monitors! You're already specifying text as pt, right, like in "10pt", "11pt", etc... "pt" which is "points" is an old printing standard, that equals approximately an inch. 72 points equal an inch, which is where the 72dpi standard came from, I would think. Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided that 96 pixels would make a great inch, which is why most Mac designeers end up hating Windows for screwing up their beautiful designs! Use the "px" measure instead, which is "px" for "pixels"! You may have to get uysed to bigger nukmbers if you're working on windows, but you can get a font size that is not adjustable in either Netscape or Windows, and will work on both Macs and PCs. Good stuff, IMHO. |
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: |
posted 08-11-2000 23:11
hey there doc... |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Minneapolis, MN, USA |
posted 08-11-2000 23:43
Argh, how embarassing, i just posted a big message about how I discovered this by looking at the forum source in the Cross-browser issue section. |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: Derbyshire, UK |
posted 08-12-2000 13:30
Okay! Once again Doc comes to the rescue of us mere mortals. I will be giving that a go later today, thank Doc, (and everyone else) |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: under the bed |
posted 08-12-2000 18:54
Yeah, mikey, the px thign doesn't work for the <font> tag....bummer. CSS is the way to go for stuff like that anyway <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif"> |
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: |
posted 08-12-2000 19:13 |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 100101010011 <-- right about here |
posted 08-13-2000 00:19
Mikey, |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: in media rea |
posted 08-13-2000 01:07
The method Mikey used is cross browser, and cross platform....but it could be cleaner. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/wink.gif"> code: <style type="text/css">
code: <style type="text/css">
code: <style type="text/css">
code: p { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #FF6633}
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Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
posted 08-13-2000 01:20
Thanks DG! I haven't ran into that problem yet, but that post taught me a HELL OF A LOT. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: in media rea |
posted 08-13-2000 01:31
Dan: |
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
posted 08-13-2000 01:36
Holy F*cking Cow.. When did the 'a' disapear? |
Maniac (V) Lord Mad Scientist Sovereign of all the lands Ozone and just beyond that little green line over there... From: Stockholm, Sweden |
posted 08-13-2000 13:04
Yes, I must point out that there are several threads that still do not properly address the pixel versus point controversy! That was a weird noght, I'd go away, do different things, and here'd be that post again, didn't I just answer this? To reiterate one more time, pixels are better than points. Please read throughout the forum, I'm sure I've mentioned the thoughts behind this assertion someplace around here! <g> |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: 127.0.0.1 |
posted 08-13-2000 16:22
I think DG just volunteered to write a CSS tutorial! <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif"> |
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: |
posted 08-13-2000 19:42
good god peter.. that's insanity! |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: in media rea |
posted 08-13-2000 20:39
~looks around~ |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 100101010011 <-- right about here |
posted 08-13-2000 22:23
Actually, |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: in media rea |
posted 08-14-2000 00:10
bit: |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 100101010011 <-- right about here |
posted 08-14-2000 05:03
Yeah I just know I had a lot of problems using Style Sheet Positioning with in-line styles but I wasn't sure if it worked or not for stuff like font info (ergo the earlier question) |