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Really curious on how to resize text as he did when you resize your browse window. Please help!

welcome Keyser,

You can put that text in a layer (<div> tag) and then play w/ the layer's styles, for example layer's width.

Yeah I understand that and I know that will change the size of the layer. But I want it that when the page is resized smaller, the layer wll of course become smaller along with the text size. Go to ozones.com and resize your window smaller and smaller and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Do you know how to use style sheets? If you don't, learn that first.

I know how to use Dreamweavers 4's style sheet
Does that count for anything?

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Thanks everbody and I really appreciate this. But does anyone know where I can find a tutorial or grab the source of making my text resize to a smaller font when the window is resized or expanded? I really need to know how to do this.

Dreamweaver? Sadly, that doesn't count for *anything*. =)

Thing is, we'd love to tell you how to make your text size change. But if we don't first teach you all the things behind it, you'll come back later asking how to, say, change a border color, not knowing that it's done almost exactly the same way. If you don't learn what's behind it, you've gained nothing.

So... work on style sheets, and learn how to use JavaScript to access an HTML element and it's style properties, and then it'll be a small step from there.

Thats why I ask right above to link me to a tutorial or something

Hmm, well, InI did just give you a pretty good overview of style sheets in his small post up there. The best place to learn style sheets is probably the W3C itself, but looking at other people's code is also a good way to learn this; twItch^'s site comes to mind. (Note that style sheets are commonly in an outside file referred to by the <link> tag.) Another place you might look around is A List Apart; although I'm not sure they have any tutorials, I'm pretty sure they'll have some good style sheet examples in their code to look at...

As for JavaScript? I'm not sure how far you are with that, usually people in this forum have a *slight* amount of knowledge in the area. Unfortunately, the best way to learn this is really through a book. I recommend checking O'Reilly for new books. The one they might have on JavaScript, last I knew, is a bit outdated as far as the Document Object Model goes (which is the way you can change style sheets dynamically through JavaScript), but it's a good way to learn the language itself. Learning the language may take *quite* some time, especially if you have no prior programming experience.

To learn how to use JavaScript with the Document Object Model, in order to manipulate style sheets, you might try a few things... look at the source of pages such as Doc's, with highly dynamic content (my own page has some of this too, but the source is often very looong, and may be hard to learn from). Also try the W3C again. DHTML Central may have some helpful resources, although it tends to be mainly cut&paste scripts, which I discourage you and anyone else from using.

Hope that helps!

Go to www.w3schools.com Silly! It ROCKS! Only thing they don't teach is PhP... Dig around in there man... Get lost! and enjoy it!

So um... I have been wondering how the Doc did that... Could some one give me a *hint*? Pretty Please? I promise, I will dig around his code... I just dunno what to look for.



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[This message has been edited by eyezaer (edited 11-21-2001).]

Thanks a lot lallous, Slime and eyezaer

Those are the only replys I really needed.