Re: Locking font size

bkhillmann (AT) hotmail (DOT) com (B Hillmann) wrote:

I may not be asking the question well. But it *is* a real question.

It really sounded like a troll. But after your explanation, I believe
it was a genuine question.

But you should have
a) selected _a_ group for your question (f'ups now trimmed)
b) described it in terms of the desired functionality (as you now
did, more or less) and not in terms of an assumed solution
(which is a dead end, as so often), and naturally with the Subject
line reflecting this
c) tried to set up a demo that explains the situations, and posted
the URL of the demo.

I understand the web's constrain and that's why I am asking the
question.

No, if you had understood how the Web works, you would not have asked
how to lock font size.

I need to have a line of small text fitting underneath a fixed size
table, let's say 400px.

Well, you cannot lock table width either, but you can create quite some
harm when trying to do so.

It needs to be very small and unintrusive
and it must not wrap.

If it needs and must appear in a particular way, then you have taken an
impossible job in trying to do it on the Web.

- - the comment is that someone is still seeing it big

Whose comment? A user's? It seems that the comment comes from a pointy-
haired boss who is never going to actually use the page ever, and
doesn't care about anyone else being able to use it either.

It's not something that need to be
*read* at such. Imagine a copyright line type of thing.

I'm imagining a lawyer who wants something to appear in fine print in a
(probably and hopefully) completely misguided idea that this will have
some legal effect even if the text is intentionally made illegible.

As for the style sheet plus the <font> tag, it's for older browsers
which unfortunately I have to accommodate

Such older browsers are no problem when style sheets are used properly.
Browsers that do not support even font-size lack _all_ CSS support,
which is much better than some less old browsers that implement CSS
_wrong_.

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