This allows for you to target say the printer and specify a formatting for printing your pages instead of relying on browsers default settings which may not be printer friendly. You can set margins, specific printing fonts and so forth with this.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_mediatypes.asp
I hope this link to w3schools is of help.
Steven Clark
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Font size, and how large is large enough? Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:36:13 -0500 (EST)
Thanks for the feed back!
I've tested the webpage on 3 differnet monitor on anything from 800X600 up. I've also tested it in Netscape, IE, Opera and FireFox. I noticed the Gecko browsers did display the font fairly small. I chose Verdana as it is very clean for both print and display. I also included it in a font family, so if a viewer hasn't got verdana installed, they will display arial (PC), hevetica(Apple?), or finally san-serif(Lowest common denominator :P). (^_^)
As I am rewriting the CSS for the website, my main focas is font size. I'm currently reading suggested articles and as soon as I have a remedied CSS I'll be sure to let you know (^^
Thanks again, this feedback is very helpful
Darian
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> On a website I've recently developed (www.cabotconsultants.com.au) I
>> opted
>> for this...
>
>> p.body {
>> font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
>> font-size: x-small;
>> line-height: 2;
>> }
>
>> I found it's clean and clear.
>
> Is your monitor huge, or your resolution very low? The most common
> meaning of x-small is 10px
> <http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/absolute-sizes-MvE.html>. That's
> much too small for average or worse eyes for normal body/paragraph text
> on normal or higher resolution on common display sizes. It's only 1px
> above the minimum size a full font set can be rendered, at regardless
> how good your eyes or what your own settings are. The problem is even
> worse for those who don't have Verdana installed, as it's the second
> largest common font size around (AFAKI, only Bitstream Vera Sans is
> larger, and it isn't all that commonly installed yet), designed
> precisely to look good at small sizes.
>
>> Just wondering... What is the difference of
>> using the percentage font-size as opposed to the preset "medium, small,
>> x-small, etc" sizes? Are these 'preset' sizes still relative to the body
>> user defined font size?
>
> Once difference is that the keywords are not subject to inheritance
> cascade, but at least they can be resized by the user even in IE. The
> wiki has more to say: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingFontSize
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