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Posted by news on 10/15/05 06:47
kchayka wrote:
> FYI, it's not "playing with display settings", but changing the browser
> preferences to what works best for the individual user. I happen to need
> a larger text size than the average person. Your page does not adjust
> well to that.
>
Fairnuff. Guess that makes sense. If there are good ways for me to make
the font increase graceful, I shall look into it. I guess I just never
really considered it before.
>
> As for getting around IE's brokenness, you might set overflow:hidden on
> the left column, but only as a last resort as it might have very
> undesireable results in other browsing environments. Instead, try not
> floating #content or setting its width at all. Just set margin-left to
> at least the width of the left column and it should take up whatever
> remaining horizontal space there is.
>
> And here's a tip: Don't set both fixed height and width for text
> elements, especially not in px units. One of those dimensions should be
> left to automatically adjust as needed, to allow for varying text sizes
> and line-wrapping in different places.
>
Thanks for the info! Unfortunately I don't have time tonight to play
and see, but by the sounds of it, this is very likely the direction I
need to go and that's what I needed.
Thanks for your time and reply!
Liam
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