Topic awaiting preservation: stupid layer overlap problem

On one of my web pages I used CSS to define text within a div as 10px but in IE5.1 on the MAC when I choose text/zoom 200% it scales the text up and cause my text to overlap layers below it. What can I do to prevent font scaling by the browser?

For the text in that DIV use a defined setting for the text size (12px or whatever)
This will keep the text at that size.

Later,
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~Binary is best~

Haha, no, it won't. Text zoom zooms *all* text. People need to get it in their heads that they can't have a pixel perfect design with CSS.

There is no way to stop the text zooming. Your best bet is to define the div's height in terms of the font size; that is, in em's or something of the sort.

Well, when I do this:

.text{

	font:bold 12pt Verdana;

	color:red;

}

The I change the size in the "View" menu, it does nothing. It stays the same size. So what is that doing then if it doesn't work?

Later,
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~Binary is best~

IE/Win's view -> text size option isn't the same as IE/Mac's text zoom. Text zoom will change *all* text. (The two programs are actually very separate, made by different groups of people. IE/Mac is arguably better/more standard-compliant.)

I have had some brief exposure to IE 5 on the Mac and it had some very strange bugs associated with it. It may be more standards compliant but sadly I don't think that means a lack of bugs. Honestly, for this particular problem the standards may leave it up to the browser as to whether or not text zooming should overide a 10px setting.

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wow! looks like I opened up a can of worms!!!

OK Slimey. Just a question. Didn't mean to "open a can of worms"

I understand that they are two different browsers made by 2 different people. It's a shame that you can't control this on the MAC though.

Point made.

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~Binary is best~

No, no, it's ok. I was just trying to clear up a misunderstanding which is actually pretty common.

In my own opinion, I think it's *good* that this can't be controlled. Mainly because there are people who *need* to change their text size (primarily those with bad vision), and would rather read text from a poor looking design (poor looking since the text is bigger than the designer expected it to be) than not be able to read at *all* from a good looking design. It's an accessability issue, really.