Posted by Cerebral Believer on 03/25/06 20:02

"Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.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? Or is
>> what I am trying to achieve not possible (this way)?
>
> I don't understand--how, other than a browser, are you examining your work
> while designing it, that it could look different than it does in a
> browser?
>
> What is the base text size, that the side panel is supposed to be 50% of?

Harlan,

If you read my response to Carolyn, you will see the basic error I was
making. Very silly of me I admit, but the matter is now resolved. Thanks
for your resonse.

Regards,
C.B.

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