Re: [css-d] Unable to fix font size in specific class

2005-12-01 Thread M. Othman
Dear Nick, Roger, Adam, Christian [and List], Thank you all for your motivating and informative replies. The mere knowledge that the problem has a solution and can be fixed motives one to go and learn more about it. Just in case a newcomer to CSS (like me), sometime in the future, reads this i

Re: [css-d] Unable to fix font size in specific class

2005-11-30 Thread Christian Montoya
M. Othman wrote: > Generally speaking, positioning is a real problem in CSS, I think. Please > have a look at > this website: http://espn.go.com/ (I understand they emigrated to CSS not so > long ago). > It is beautiful *UNTIL* you change the font size to "LARGE. It completely > messes up >

Re: [css-d] Unable to fix font size in specific class

2005-11-30 Thread Adam Kuehn
M. Othman wrote: >Generally speaking, positioning is a real problem in CSS, I think. I hear this kind of complaint a lot. This isn't really a fault of CSS, however, but is more a question of familiarity. We've seen table abuse for so long that we've become accustomed to it, and many developer

Re: [css-d] Unable to fix font size in specific class

2005-11-30 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
> Please > have a look at this website: http://espn.go.com/ (I understand they > emigrated to CSS not so long ago). It is beautiful *UNTIL* you change the > font size to "LARGE. It completely messes up the middle column, actually > it becomes * unreadable *. The right column is also affected

Re: [css-d] Unable to fix font size in specific class

2005-11-30 Thread M. Othman
s.css-discuss.org Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] Unable to fix font size in specific class Mohammed, On Nov 21, 2005, at 7:10 AM, M. Othman wrote: > Thank you Rahul, Roger and Georg for your answers. > > It makes sense of course that u

Re: [css-d] Unable to fix font size in specific class

2005-11-21 Thread Roger Roelofs
Ian On Nov 21, 2005, at 7:54 AM, 2geedesign wrote: > Hi Roger > I think that I originally raised this point - not Mohammed. > The link is http://www.studleyflorists.co.uk/handtied.html > > and for CSS http://www.studleyflorists.co.uk/stylesheets/main-style > What I want to achieve is that the t

Re: [css-d] Unable to fix font size in specific class

2005-11-21 Thread Roger Roelofs
Mohammed, On Nov 21, 2005, at 7:10 AM, M. Othman wrote: > Thank you Rahul, Roger and Georg for your answers. > > It makes sense of course that users should be in control of their > browsers > (text sizes etc) but that actually causes a problem with positioning in > general. > > Perhaps I will st

Re: [css-d] Unable to fix font size in specific class

2005-11-21 Thread M. Othman
Thank you Rahul, Roger and Georg for your answers. It makes sense of course that users should be in control of their browsers (text sizes etc) but that actually causes a problem with positioning in general. Perhaps I will start looking for an alternative way to keep the layout fixed even when the

Re: [css-d] Unable to fix font size in specific class

2005-11-20 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
M. Othman wrote: > I thought it was possible to fix the font size by using divs. > > Have a look at the BBC website @ http://news.bbc.co.uk and try to > change the text size, it remains fixed. I am sure they do it > (somehow). > No, BBC just break normal font-resizing in Internet Explorer. Ev

Re: [css-d] Unable to fix font size in specific class

2005-11-20 Thread Roger Roelofs
Mohammed, On Nov 20, 2005, at 9:22 AM, M. Othman wrote: > I thought it was possible to fix the font size by using divs. > > Have a look at the BBC website @ http://news.bbc.co.uk and try to > change > the text size, it remains fixed. I am sure they do it (somehow). > > This "feature" is - so

Re: [css-d] Unable to fix font size in specific class

2005-11-20 Thread M. Othman
change the text size via their browsers. Mohammed - Original Message - From: "Gunlaug Sørtun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "2geedesign" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] Unable to fix font size in specific clas

Re: [css-d] Unable to fix font size in specific class

2005-11-20 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
2geedesign wrote: > I have built a store page and want to keep the text size in the > store class (.store) at a fixed pixel size (say 10px) to avoid the > page breaking up if the user increases text size. Not possible in any of today's browsers. Browser-options will take over at user's will. M

[css-d] Unable to fix font size in specific class

2005-11-20 Thread 2geedesign
Hi Webpage http://www.studleyflorists.co.uk/handtied.html CSS http://www.studleyflorists.co.uk/stylesheets/main-style.css I have built a store page and want to keep the text size in the store class (.store) at a fixed pixel size (say 10px) to avoid the page breaking up if the user increases