On 2010/07/13 13:52 (GMT+0800) Chris Blake composed: > 2. 'line-height set in pixels' - what should I use? It's a menu rather > than a paragraph.
Unless you're happy to have your design break royally upon encountering minimum font size, containers need to be big enough for the text they contain. Line-height is a sort of containment. When you specify line-height of 16px and my minimum font size is 22px, something will definitely break. That break is likely to be my patience, followed by a click on the back button. So, make the line-height depend on the size of the text it must contain, using a ratio, a plain number, such as 1.3. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#propdef-line-height > 16 pixels minimum - are you kidding me!? Pixels are a proportion of a display canvas that is normally of unknown size. Since CSS cannot know display size regardless, and cannot know total px to fit in the unknown display space, via CSS alone you have no idea how big 16px is. At 144 DPI (e.g, my display here), 16px is only 8pt, while my UI text (e.g. browser menus) is 10pt, and my normal browser minimum font sizes vary between 15px and 22px, depending on which browser and for what purpose I'm using it. Sometimes I set the minimum equal to the (24px) default, which removes any practical possibility of contextual meaning to be derived from text size, but is the only way to actually read what I need to read without disabling all page styles. On http://blakeys.com/design/index.php/en/blakeys-websites-introduction with a 22px minimum setting the white nav text is so scattered about it's impossible to guess what it means to offer, and on hover the dropdowns compound the apparent textual randomization. Up top in the middle looks like a tiny hanging tab, with only about the top 40% of the text it's apparently supposed to contain actually showing, and nothing showing to help explain it on the statusbar on hover. The search box can't fit even 7 full letters (abcdefg), cutting off the bottoms, and one or the other end. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
