CSS - Font-size Problem But There Is No Text...

So when using Netscape 7.2 & Opera 7.5 and MSIE 6.0,


How do you get a simple tag like

body {
font-size:small;
}

to be equal in all browsers?

Setting IE Text Size to Medium, and Opera's Zoom to 100% (both defaults) and Netscape 7.2 to 120% (not the default) is one way, but is there a CSS way?

By the way, the child element hack "body>div {property}" wasn't working no matter what I tried, by not working I mean to say Netscape never would read it or apply it.

It appeared to be that Opera & IE need to read the same value while Netscape needs to apply a larger size to be equal to IE's and Opera's rendering.

B

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/

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?

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,

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

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>

<!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 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?

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 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

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?