Posted by Helen on 10/23/05 19:08

It's ok, I got it sorted. Instead of the <font size=1> you put <font
style="font-size:9px"> - which seems to be working.

"Barbara de Zoete" <b_de_zoete@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:33:47 +0200, Helen <nospam@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I was hoping someone can help me.
>>
>> OK, I am in the process of redesigning my website and I've noticed that
>> in
>> firefox the text is slightly bigger then in IE, nothing major or anything
>> but would prefer the text to be the exact same size in both. I use the
>> normal html <font size=1> text </font>. Can anyone help?
>
> In IE you can either use [Ctrl]+scroll to size the text up or down, or use
> the menu [view > fontsize]. In FF you can use the [Ctrl]+scroll too to
> resize the text, or use the menu [view > text-size].
>
> No, that is not a joke. You needn't set a font size at all, or leave it at
> 100%. Your visitor, using one browser at the time and not noticing
> anything different between various browsers anyway, knows what font size
> is good for reading comfortable from his/her screen at his/her given
> browsing situation. If you prefer the fonts to be equal in those two
> browsers (there are many more) use your browser setting to achieve that.
> You can't achieve it through markup (alone).
>
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