Posted by Cerebral Believer on 03/25/06 17:39

"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
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> 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.

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