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How to set default font size to small for a page's body?
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How to set default font size to small for a page's body? -
04-16-2008
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I've tried body style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:0.8em;" or body style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:11pct;" or body style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:80%;" to no avail. In IE7 it shows up as Medium. What did I do wrong? Thanks. |
*setting*, it changes the sizes of the fonts *relative* to that setting
(assuming you're using relative units like % or em).
Anyway, why are you trying to set the primary font of your page to a
size that's smaller than the user finds convenient to read?
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I've tried body style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:0.8em;" or body style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:11pct;" or body style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:80%;" to no avail. In IE7 it shows up as Medium. What did I do wrong? |
browser, so that your "small" text doesn't look the way you
expect? Or perhaps you are running into issues where your CSS
is trying to make the text smaller than the minimum font size
set in your browser?
See elsewhere in this group for information about why you shouldn't
set the body font-size to anything other than 100% (i.e. the user's
preferred font size), and especially about problems with Verdana
relative to other fonts.
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Don Li wrote: I've tried body style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:0.8em;" or body style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:11pct;" or body style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:80%;" to no avail. *In IE7 it shows up as Medium. *What did I do wrong? Thanks. ?? Setting the font size in the document doesn't change the IE *setting*, it changes the sizes of the fonts *relative* to that setting (assuming you're using relative units like % or em). Anyway, why are you trying to set the primary font of your page to a size that's smaller than the user finds convenient to read? |
one screen (about 80% of a full screen) without scrolling.
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What did I do wrong? |
Don't do that! Do not specify a font size for BODY.
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In memoriam Alan J. Flavell
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Would like to get key points of WHAT, For WHOM, WHY and HOW across on one screen (about 80% of a full screen) without scrolling. |
be. They could be using one of the iPhones! Also screen size != browser
window size, not *everyone* runs a browser maximized. I rarely do. Time
to rethink your design.
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Don Li wrote: I've tried Please read this:http://tekrider.net/html/fontsize.php .. What did I do wrong? You decided to pick a size which would make many visitors (including me) squint at the monitor. If 100% is too large for your own taste, decrease your own browser's default size. But leave it adequate for me. I expect your post was just a test. Normally you would move the styling to your CSS style sheet. -- * *-bts * *-Friends don't let friends drive Vista |
a) the majority of my users are likely not knowing how to set font
size with their browser and I don't intend to provide instruction on
that (once again, they are not you, not tech savvy);
b) the 'small' font size looks good (not the default 100% size) for
the home page (feedback from beta users).
Thanks.
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the majority of my users are likely not knowing how to set font size with their browser |
--
In memoriam Alan J. Flavell
http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...Alan.J.Flavell
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On Apr 16, 10:44 am, Harlan Messinger hmessinger.removet... (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote: Don Li wrote: I've tried body style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:0.8em;" or body style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:11pct;" or body style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:80%;" to no avail. In IE7 it shows up as Medium. What did I do wrong? Thanks. ?? Setting the font size in the document doesn't change the IE *setting*, it changes the sizes of the fonts *relative* to that setting (assuming you're using relative units like % or em). Anyway, why are you trying to set the primary font of your page to a size that's smaller than the user finds convenient to read? Would like to get key points of WHAT, For WHOM, WHY and HOW across on one screen (about 80% of a full screen) without scrolling. |
up a web page invent for themselves, especially when they produce
undesirable results, such as here where the result will be that people
find the page less comfortable to read.) How do you know how large any
given user's screen is? What makes you think they have their browser
opened to the full size of their screen anyway? I have a large,
high-resolution screen, and it would normally be ridiculous for me to
maximize my browser--I have no need for a document to be that wide. Yet
these days there are web designers who seem to think they need to have
800-pixel-wide graphics and six columns of text across the page, so that
I either have to scroll to the right (which, unlike scrolling down,
isn't part of the normal web experience) or expand my browser against my
preferences, so that I can only see the browser and can't see anything
else I have on my desktop.
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On Apr 16, 11:15 am, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" a.nony.m... (AT) example (DOT) invalid> wrote: Don Li wrote: I've tried Please read this:http://tekrider.net/html/fontsize.php .. What did I do wrong? You decided to pick a size which would make many visitors (including me) squint at the monitor. If 100% is too large for your own taste, decrease your own browser's default size. But leave it adequate for me. I expect your post was just a test. Normally you would move the styling to your CSS style sheet. -- -bts -Friends don't let friends drive Vista People. Please consider the following factors: a) the majority of my users are likely not knowing how to set font size with their browser and I don't intend to provide instruction on that (once again, they are not you, not tech savvy); |
change the size of their text, then that's exactly why you *shouldn't*
make it too small for some of them to read. Some people *need* the type
to be at least normal size. Nobody needs it *smaller*.
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b) the 'small' font size looks good (not the default 100% size) for the home page (feedback from beta users). |
Medium setting and you have the quality of eyesight that you are
fortunate enough to have--and may not still have 10 or 20 years from now.
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