CSS - Default Font Size

I have a group of buttons which when one is clicked its color changes and the others if any have been clicked revert back to the default color. Am I right in thinking the defualt html font color is black?

People viewing my site at 120 dpi are seeing misaligned text and layout, whereas people viewing the site at 96dpi can see it properly.
I'm using "em" instead of pixels when setting font sizes in CSS.
The site has fixed length and width, do I HAVE to allow it to resize itself?

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...

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

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/

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

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 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?

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.

<!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??

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;
}

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!

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>