CSS - Doctype And Font-size:xx; Bugs

hi, someone using foxfire keeps saying the my font is really really tiny, I have my css file like: Code:

body { background: #FFFFFF;
/* for internet explorer */
scrollbar-face-color: #FFFFFF; scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFFF; scrollbar-shadow-color: #FFFFFF; scrollbar-3dlight-color: #494969; scrollbar-arrow-color: #494969; scrollbar-track-color: #FFFFFF; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #494969; 
margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-top: 1px solid #8E9397; border-left: 1px solid #8E9397; font-color: #494969; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 8pt; text-align: left; }

a:link,a:active,a:visited { color: #494969; text-decoration: none }
a:hover { text-decoration: underline; color: #494969; position: relative; top: -1px; left: -1px; }
hr { background: transparent; color: #494969; height: 1px; border-width: 0px; }
fieldset { margin: 0; padding: 1px; border: 1px solid #494969; }
legend { margin: 0; padding: 7px; color: #494969; background: transparent; font-weight: bold; }
img { border: 0px; }
table { background: transparent; }
tr { background: transparent; }
td { background: transparent; color: #494969; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 70%; }
input, textarea, select { color: #494969; font: normal 11px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background: transparent; border: 1px solid #494969; border-style: inset; text-align: center; text-indent: 2px; }

form { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; }

any idea on whats wrong? and I would of changed the % to an actual value but I wanted to make it so people can control the size of the font to lager or smaller


here is a preview with that css file in use : http://www.dbznetwork.net/

Well, the title might be a little oversimplified, but I guess it caught your attention

In the past, I always set my font sizes using px. I know that this is not the appropriate standard (since it doesn't allow a user to re-size the font on their end), but I usually did it because it was easiest and most predictable.

Now, I finally want to make the step towards more accessibility and I would like to learn a little bit more about using em's appropriately.

Does anyone have any good advise on how to get started with the following questions: How/where do I set the initial font-size, from which I can use em's? What are the dangers of using em's instead of px? Where could this change impact my usual styling? Are there any good resources/tutorials about this?
Any help/suggestions/ideas are appreciated...

I have set up a test for several basic CSS-layouts, like 3-column layout, frame-like layout/behaviour etc. and I noticed some strange behaviour in IE.

Here is a number of layouts that I have created:
http://www.duwgati.nl/csstest

In layout samples 1 - 4 the fonts show up smaller than in the samples 5 -7, even though the font-size declaration is identical in all 7 samples. This only happens in IE, in Mozilla/Firefox, the fontsizes are correct in all 7 samples.

Anybody got a clue why this is happening?

ok so basically my MAIN browser is Opera which I use it 99% of the time.
Now when I try viewing my site in Internet Explorer, font size looks SMALLER than the one I see in Opera.

Of course the solution would be simple - bump up the font size but then the font looks TOO BIG in Opera.


how to equalize these font sizes in both browsers?


also, is this the correct usage for setting font size?

Code:

body,td,th {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	color: #000000;
}
a:link {
	color: #000000;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
	color: #000000;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
	color: #000000;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a {
	font-size: 12px;
}

EDIT:

this message I wrote right now, looks EXACTLY the same in both browsers. Fonts match up perfectly.
what did the admin do for font property?

I've read several books such as Dan Cederholms, "Web standard solutions" and Eric Meyers on CSS, but I've yet to come across anything that delves into the specifics between declaring font-size attributes of px, %, em. I've always kind of used px for my sites, but I've seen some sites that use percentages and others that use em. What are the best uses for each one? How exactly does the % and em know what size to be?

FYI: I didn't mention 'pt' because I do in fact know the purpose of it for printing web documents.

Feel free to discuss or even post a great link that covers everything.

Thanks!

Hello:

I'm building a website for a broad audience. I need there to be an option for text to be resized for those who have trouble with reading screens. I am trying to have the text on HTML pages be changeable through CSS.

Two examples I offer are

1. wired.com
2. 1and1.com

On the top right corner of the screen, there are options to change the text size without switching to a new HTML page. I believe this is done using CSS (perhaps Live StyleSheet Selector). I'm not really sure.

I would like for the user the have the option to change the font-size by clicking, not by repositioning the window (then the size changing relative to window size).


If anyone can help me, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

Deanna

I have a style.css file included on all pages
i want to sent default font and size, for all the text where i haven't already set something

Hi

I'm using a css file for the layout of my website. But I'd like to define the default font size but I can't! I mean the size of the font that's under no special style. I think it's something like:

Code:

.body
{ font-size: 10px; }

Or similar (instead of 10px, small)... anybody knows exactly hoy can I do it?

I know this topic has been discussed a number of times in the past and I have read some of them. Kravittz I do appreciate all your knowledge in this area as you have answered a lot of my questions already.

But I do have a few problems yet.

I am switching now to set the font size in body as
Code:

body {
	font-family:Verdana, Tahoma, Arial; 
	font-size: 85%;
	color: #000000;
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

(actually not sure if I like Verdana or the good ol' Arial first. that is a different question)
Anyway, I set the font to 85% for body.
then for <p>
Code:

p {
	font-size: .8em;
}

That seems to look fine. but first question is for links <a>. I have some links that are just be themselves or sometimes in a <div> tag. Those ones are very large. So I set the size like this.
Code:

a:link {
	text-decoration: underline;
	color: #000000;
	font-size: .8em;
}

that works fine but them for the few links that are inside of a <p> tag it seems to adjust the size twice, once for <p> tag and then again for <a> tag. Thus making it twice as small as I really want.

How do I fix that? Do I need to make a whole bunch of psuedo classes for all those instances? Seems like there should be an easier way.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
div.print {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 2pt;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: normal;
font-variant: normal;
text-transform: none;
color: #FF3300;
letter-spacing: normal;
word-spacing: normal;
}

div.regular{
font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: larger;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: bold;
font-variant: normal;
text-transform: none;
color:#006600;
letter-spacing: normal;
word-spacing: normal;
text-decoration: underline;
}
-->
</style>

<script language="JavaScript">
function printerFriendly()
{
document.getElementById('div1').className = 'print';
}
</script>

</head>

<body>
<p><a href="javascriptrinterFriendly()">click here to change font</a></p>
<div id="div1" class="regular">
<table id="tab1" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">

<tr>
<td>bla</td>
<td>kla</td>
<td>sal</td>
<td>kdef</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>iuwhdfqower</td>
<td>ouresgopu</td>
<td>uihwdrfpu</td>
<td>uiwrhgfpuieroi</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>oiiudefpuiwerv</td>
<td>iufdgpiuwqerpoi</td>
<td>iuergpuergipou</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p class="print">&nbsp;</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

why is the font size not changing nor the color??
only the font changes when th link is clicked??

How can I randomize text size on a website? Like the ones done with the "tags" found on many wordpress blogs? Nothing too crazy, I just want to display words randomly and have some of the text bigger than others.

Hi there,

I have a font size problem. Basically, some of the text on the page appears as size 14 verdana, where as the other text appears how i want it.

I want the text to be displayed as 11px tahoma.

This is what i am using:
PHP Code:
 BODY {    
    margin:0px;
    padding:0px;
    font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial;
    font-size: 11px;
    
} 





Also, some text is in a <p> tag. How do i define that?

Many thanks

Hi

I have applied this style to a drop down. However, the font size only appears at 10px in FF and not IE. Any ideas why?

<option style="font-family: Verdana;
background: #E0EAF8;
font-size: 10px;" value="link">link text</option>

Is there any way to limit how large a font can become in firefox and internet explorer?

built a drop down using array...
i did it this way so if they omit another item in page, the county they selected will reappear..but how do i change the font size of the county names in the array....they appear in such small print???? had posted in php forum, but someone suggested posting here...

PHP Code:
<table width="100%">
                         <? if( ($msgcounty == "e") && (isset($_POST['submit'])) )  {?>
                            <tr>
                            <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#ff0000"><b>County:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</b></font>
                        <? } 
                          else 
                          { ?> 
                            <tr>
                            <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000"><b>County:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</b></font>
                            
                            <? }  ?>
<?    $county = array (1 => 'county',
'Adams County',
'Allen County',
'Wells County',
'White County',
'Whitley');

      foreach ($county as $key => $value)
          { 
if ($countyselecter==$value) {
$optionselected = "selected";
}else{ 
$optionselected = "";
}

$selectcnty.= "<option value=\"$value\" ".$optionselected."> $value</option>\n";}


?><select name="countyselecter"> 
       <? echo $selectcnty;  ?>     

       </select>

</td>
</tr>
</table>