[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Apparently .5em or 10px or 7pt is as small as the text will get in Firefox;
> whereas in IE, you can even make it smaller than that (if you really needed
> to).  I have also tried percentages and have gotten the same result.  It
> seems like Firefox should be able to scale the font size down to whatever
> you want, even if it would take a 50lb magnifying glass to read.  I assume
> this is a possible bug on Mozilla's side (intentional?) Does anyone have
> any insight into this?
> 

Firefox, Opera, and possibly Safari have a minimum font size preference; 
no matter what size you set (e.g. font-size: 1px;) the font won't be 
made any smaller. In FF it's on the Content tab, font fieldset, Advanced 
button.

If you can control the users' browsers (e.g. this is on an intranet) you 
can change the preference for all of them or get them to do it 
themselves; otherwise you'll have to accept it. (I doubt that exhorting 
people to fiddle with browser options for the sake of printing one page 
is going to work.)

FWIW, Opera uses 9px as the minimum (at least as of version 9 Beta on 
Windows, and since version 7 on the Mac); I think FF does the same, but 
I seem to have set the option to "none" when experimenting with this a 
while back, so maybe it's 10px, as you suggest.

Cheers,

Nick.
-- 
Nick Fitzsimons
http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/


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