Posted by Curtis on 12/19/05 22:13

Curtis <nospam@nohow.not> wrote in message
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> How does one use scalable fonts with nested lists?
>
> Apparently if ul is {font-zize: 130%;} for example,
>
> * A This is 130% of context
> * A This is 130% of context
> ** B This is 130% of A
> ** B This is 130% of A
> *** This is 130% of B
> *** This is 130% of B
>
> The HTML our program presently outputs is
>
> <ul class="ulist" style="font-size: 130%;">
> <li> A Item</li>
> <li> A item</li>
> <ul class="ulist" style="font-size: 130%;">
> <li> B item</li>
> <li> B item</li>
> <ul class="ulist" style="font-size: 130%;">
> <li> C item</li>
> <li> C item</li>
> </ul>
> </ul>
> <li> A item</li>
> </ul>
>
> Dropping the inline style and setting ul or ulist at
> font-size: 130%; has the same effect. Each level of
subitem
> gets progressively larger.
>
> Is there any way around this short of fized font sizes for
> lists?
>
> It would be easy enough for our code to generate different
> class names for each level of list,
> class="ulist1", ulist2, etc., but...

I see that on Firefox "fixed" font sizes still respond to
scaling.

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