CSS - Simple Font-size And Paragraph Question

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,

I have something has follows:

<div>
...
<table>
...
</table>

</div>

My document font size is 1em.

My div font size is 1.4em.

What should be the font-size in my table to get back to the 1em of the document?

Thanks,
Miguel

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...

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.

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

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

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> 

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

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?

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

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 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?

Thanks for taking the time to read my question.

I am setting the font size for this tag in CSS and it is showing up in different sizes depending on the browser.

The font is bigger in FF than it is in IE7. My text fits in the desired area in IE7, but is way to big in FF.

I have to be doing something incorrect here. Does anyone notice anything?

Thanks,

Brad

HTML:
Code:

<p id="FillText">Click on an item under <strong>'Latest News'</strong> to read more about it here and get links to the full story...</p>

CSS:
Code:

#FillText {
font-size: 16px;
color: #ffffff;	
height: 280px;
padding-top: 20px;
padding-left: 90px;
padding-right: 15px;
/*padding: 30px 34px 20px 96px;  */
text-indent: 20px;
}

<!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??