CSS - Font Size According To The Element Width

Whats the best way to fix font size?

I use CSS. The font size seems to stay fix on IE but not on Mozilla and Netscape.

Also I notice when I use adgui font it stay fix no matter in what browser and no matter at what text view. Why is that. Are there more of this kinda fonts?

Bottom line, whats the best way to fix the size of fonts regardless of browser and at what text view.

Thanks for you help
Liz

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...

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/

Hello all. THis is my first post here .
I use em to define font-size at my site.

At main css file...
body { font-size: 76%; }
tr, p, div, td, div { font-size: 1em; }

at secondary css file...
div#content_area .contentpaneopen {
font-size: 1.1em ;
line-height: 1.3em;
}

The problem is that the text (content_area) displays correctly on firefox and Opera and wrong on IE. I need em because i use a auto font resize javascript file.I am trying to find what is wrong for days...!

please check at this link...

I am sorry about the greek encoding
Thank you

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!

<!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??

What is the best way to make compatble text size between browser?

I have a div with a width of 300px, I pasted some text in it, it appears identical with firefox, chrome and safari (the letters are the exact same place), but when it comes to IE 8 (probably 6/7 too), the text is not displayed at the same place.

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

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> 

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!

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

I need to shrink the fonts for the following classes on blogspot:
post-body
date-header

but for some reason it refuses to shrink below 100% or 1em

Even in firebug, adding properties to element.style, the font refuses to shrink below 100%. Even when i switch off all inherited values for font values it refuses. It does however grow to any size larger than 100%.

Other elements' fonts do shrink to any value, it is only these (and possibly others) that do not shrink.

blogspot in question is http://secretfarts.blogspot.com

Any ideas?

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