RE: [css-d] Text sizing in IE

[jérôme coupé]

Hello Ali,

In addition to what Georg said, I usually set the root-declaration to
100.01% to avoid size inheritance bugs in some versions of Opera, and then
use em.


Cheers,

Jérôme Coupé
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> -Original Message-
> Hi,
> 
> Could anyone help me out with a problem with relative text 
> sizing in IE (and possibly other browsers)?
> 
> I have declared the body font-size as 1.0em, p as 0.8em and 
> headings 1.2em etc on my page (http://www.aycee.co.uk) and 
> they all scale correctly in relation to each other, the 
> problem occurs when using IE to change the visible font-size 
> - the size of the text as a whole seems to adjust in big 
> jumps from really large text for largest, down to miniscule 
> unreadable text for smallest.

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Re: [css-d] Text sizing in IE

[Felix Miata]

Ali Lee wrote:
 
> Could anyone help me out with a problem with relative text sizing in IE (and
> possibly other browsers)?
 
> I have declared the body font-size as 1.0em, p as 0.8em and headings 1.2em
> etc on my page (http://www.aycee.co.uk) and they all scale correctly in
> relation to each other, the problem occurs when using IE to change the
> visible font-size - the size of the text as a whole seems to adjust in big
> jumps from really large text for largest, down to miniscule unreadable text
> for smallest.  When looking at a page such as Google, changing the text
> sizes doesn't make as much of a difference, the smallest text is still
> readable.  I've noticed that A List Apart also 'jumps' in big steps like my
> page does.
 
> Has anyone come across this before and can suggest a solution?  I want my
> visitors to be able to adjust the text size but in smaller gradients than is
> currently happening.  I have tried using both ems and % but neither make a
> difference.  Is it something really simple that I'm missing?
 
> My CSS is available at http://www.aycee.co.uk/aycee1.css, aycee2.css or
> aycee3.css depending which stylesheet version is being viewed.

Two ways to deal with this:

1-Respect users' wishes as recorded in their prefs. Make your p text
1.0em, by setting no inherited sizes or body size at all. Browser font
size prefs are there for a reason, so that users can adjust them
according to their wishes and needs.

2-Follow the wiki instructions:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingEms
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Re: [css-d] Text sizing in IE

[Gunlaug Sørtun]

Ali Lee wrote:

I've noticed that A List Apart also 'jumps' in big steps like my page
 does.

Has anyone come across this before and can suggest a solution?


A really old IE/win bug that many still loose out on. ALA sure has it.

Set the root-declaration in 'percent' (%), and the bug is "gone".
For your page that's 'font-size: 100%'.

You're free to use 'em' and/or '%' further down.

regards
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