Thanks a lot for all your replies what a large topic but essential to understand. I have been playing around with various percentages, medium, em for sizes and I am still on the case and before I rewrite the design again,settling at present for 100% for body text. However, even though I have avoided ems in my present code it seems impossible to get IE to resize text. I know that IE has a bug but I was told it would work with anything other than px. Here´s the offending css and a link to the page http://216.219.94.105/ Thanks for any pointers in advance everyone html {padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px} ul {padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px} ol {padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px} body {padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background: #ffffff repeat-x 50% top; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; font: 100% tahoma, arial, sans-serif; color: #4d4d4d; padding-top: 0px} img {border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px} h1 {font-size: 19%} h2 {font-size: 15%} h3 {font-size: medium; font:tahoma, arial, sans-serif} a {color: #7f99ae; text-decoration: none} a:hover {text-decoration: underline}
Ed Seedhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/21/07, Shark Attack Design wrote: > > I wonder what proportion of web users ever bother to adjust the default > text size of their browser(s)? The preset default size is generally 16 > (I think Safari is different?) although I'm not sure what the units are > for that default -- pixels? Points? > > I think that most people, if they were browsing a site that didn't > adjust the font size by CSS, would find that default size uncomfortably > large. However, they never adjust their default setting because a) they > don't even know that they can, and wouldn't know how to if they did, and > b) the majority of sites these days make some effort to ramp the type > down from 16 to something more 'designed' -- so the user may not even be > aware how large their default setting is. I think the point is that for such people the default size at least does not annoy them so much as to drive them to learn how to change it! So going with their default browser size at least won't offend them too badly, and you don't know how they will react if you impose a size on them. In that sense I argue that the browser default font size is the safest and least likely to cause offense. And as we know if the page offends the user she is likely to hit the home or back button and never return. -- Ed Seedhouse ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ --------------------------------- Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. --------------------------------- Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
