font size confusion

Hi.

With regards to the following:

font: 11px/22px Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

Could someone please tell me what the 11px/22px is all about?


Many thanks,

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Harry wrote:

With regards to the following:
font: 11px/22px Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

Could someone please tell me what the 11px/22px is all about?

11px is the font size. 22px is the line-height.

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"Jim Moe" <jmm-list.AXSPAMGN (AT) sohnen-moe (DOT) com> wrote

11px is the font size. 22px is the line-height.

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That was quick!

Many thanks.



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Harry Smith

Harry wrote:

With regards to the following:

font: 11px/22px Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

Could someone please tell me what the 11px/22px is all about?

It's old style for sure. Use percentages, and drop Verdana.

font: 100% Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

http://k75s.home.att.net/fontsize.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html

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On 06/06/08 18:33 (GMT-0400) Harry apparently typed:

With regards to the following:

font: 11px/22px Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

Could someone please tell me what the 11px/22px is all about?

Some rude or clueless print deezigner who thinks he's created a web page
thinks leading twice normal makes his rude mousetype legible. The help
he thinks it provides is illusory.

Nothing need ever be sized in px in a page designed for the web, and
setting line-height with it is particularly vacuous.
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/line-height-inherit.html
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Harry wrote:

11px is the font size. 22px is the line-height.

That was quick!

Many thanks.

Sure.

Huh! I did not notice the time.
Heed the posts about font size.

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On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

font: 11px/22px Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

It's old style for sure. Use percentages, and drop Verdana.
font: 100% Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

Drop Geneva; it is a typeface with only one font.
There is no bold Geneva and no italic Geneva.

Most people have Arial; so the order "Arial, Helvetica" doesn't
make sense. Better is "Helvetica, Arial" if you want to include
Helvetica.

Andreas Prilop wrote:

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

font: 11px/22px Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

It's old style for sure. Use percentages, and drop Verdana.
font: 100% Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

Drop Geneva; it is a typeface with only one font. There is no bold
Geneva and no italic Geneva.

Most people have Arial; so the order "Arial, Helvetica" doesn't make
sense. Better is "Helvetica, Arial" if you want to include Helvetica.

You're right, I didn't delve far enough into it, having only copied the
OP's line, changing the font sizing and removing Verdana.

My own sites have Helvetica first, and no Geneva. (Don't even have
Geneva installed...)

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On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Andreas Prilop wrote:

Drop Geneva; it is a typeface with only one font. There is no bold
Geneva and no italic Geneva.
....
My own sites have Helvetica first, and no Geneva. (Don't even have
Geneva installed...)

Oh, in CSS, specifying a font that you haven't got installed is
harmless enough: the harm comes when the font *is* installed :-}

SCNR

"Felix Miata" <UgaddaBkidding.due2UCE (AT) dev (DOT) nul> wrote

On 06/06/08 18:33 (GMT-0400) Harry apparently typed:

With regards to the following:

font: 11px/22px Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

Could someone please tell me what the 11px/22px is all about?

Some rude or clueless print deezigner who thinks he's created a web page
thinks leading twice normal makes his rude mousetype legible. The help
he thinks it provides is illusory.

Its actually some code from this css book [the css Anthology]
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/cssant1/ which I'm currently working through.

She doesn't always explain all the code she uses.

Nothing need ever be sized in px in a page designed for the web, and
setting line-height with it is particularly vacuous.
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/line-height-inherit.html

This was useful - thanks.

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