Hallo Jen, Dan Cederholm http://www.simplebits.com uses a method that "I THINK" Douglas Bowman developed called sliding doors to produce buttons that expand with the text. The work isn't overly taxing, though it does ad a little extra weight to the Mark-up.
You could check that out as it's contained in Dan's book "Bulletproof Web Design", as well as an article on scalable navigation using a repeated gif that tiles to expand with the text field, and a plethora of instruction on switching to ems, and why it makes sense... Hope that helps Jen and Georg wrote QUOTE: > Thanks to everyone who responded. This was really helpful! To save > list > some hits I will only reply to Georg who covered most of the main > points > people had. (Tigdh had a really good point though about what happens > when white text breaks out of a background - I didn't think of that.) > >> Advice: don't rely on, or use, fixed font-sizes (in pixel). > > > I have been afraid of ems but I will give it a try. I am going to try > the 62.5% solution mentioned at http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348. I > guess it is unrealistic to believe that I can expand all of my buttons > to keep up with expanded text - or is it? Or should I really lock > it in > and use image for text on buttons? > > END QUOTE * * * * * TAG /* --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- */ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
