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Posted by Cerebral Believer on 03/25/06 18:41
"Carolyn Marenger" <cajunk@marenger.com> wrote in message
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> Cerebral Believer wrote:
>
>>
>> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
>> news:44255fbb$0$3700$cb0e7fc6@news.centralva.net...
>>> Cerebral Believer wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I am keen to allow people who view my site to be able to resize the
>>>> text
>>>> in their browsers (especially for people who need to read larger text).
>>>> With my old web-page I specified the point size in the HTML code, and
>>>> noticed that when using Internet Explorer the text could not be
>>>> resized.
>>>> In designing my new site I have chosen to express the text sizes as
>>>> percentages in a stylesheet, e.g.
>>>>
>>>> .side_panel_title {
>>>> font : bold 50% 'Trebuchet MS',
>>>> 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif;
>>>> color : #990000;
>>>> }
>>>> .side_panel_text {
>>>> font : 50% 'Trebuchet MS',
>>>> 'Lucida
>>>> Grande', Arial, sans-serif;
>>>> color : #373737;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> I did this thinking that the viewers of my web-pages would be able to
>>>> select larger font sizes for viewing by adjusting their browser text
>>>> settings. However, when the page is rendered in Internet Explorer, the
>>>> text only appears in a readable size (the size I actually designed the
>>>> page) when the "View | Text Size | Largest" setting is selected. I had
>>>> thought that users would be able to increase the size text to a larger
>>>> size than the sizes I used to design the page in order to make the text
>>>> easier to read - that is what I want to achieve, that is the same
>>>> effect
>>>> as on the w3org site http://www.w3.org/. What am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>> font: bold 50% 'Trebuchet MS','Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif;
>>> ^^^^
>>> THAT! 50% in incredibly small!
>>>
>>> BODY { font-size: 100%; }
>>> .anything_else not smaller than 75%, 80% is usually the preferred
>>> smallest for stuff like boilerplate.
>>
>> Yes, thanks for that you are right, that text size is small. I had used
>> that size because, given the way I had formed my CSS & HTML, it rendered
>> the way I prefer to see it in my browser, but since I modified my CSS the
>> way
>> you suggested I can see why I should use a larger size. The only issue I
>> have now is that the text does appear to be bold when in larger sizes,
>> and
>> I would have liked to keep the text in the same weight as I would usually
>> see it on my screen, I will experiemnt with the font-weight.
>>
>> Thanks very much for your help.
>> C.B.
>
> Why not leave the font setting at 100% and adjust your browser so it looks
> good to you on your system. Then it will also look good to everyone else
> when they see it on theirs at their ideal font size. This is assuming of
> course that they have their default font size set to their ideal.
Carolyn,
Yes, I think you have seen through my faulty logic. I actually think the
page looks best in a small font size and want everyone else to see it that
way by default. I had thought IE scaled the text sizes up/down relative to
the text sizes in which the page was designed - I now understand this is not
correct. I am new to this and I guess it shows, but that is all part of
learning, right? Thanks for your advice.
Regards,
C.B.
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