Hi Kara,
Don't know if I'm coming in late on this one but here goes anyway.
I'd suggest using a font-size of either 100.01% in the body and adjusting
content text accordingly or 76.1% as a minimum font-size.
I normally do a global reset something like this:
/* global reset */
* {margin:0; padding:0}
body {text-align:center; font:100.01%/130% Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:#000; background:#fff; width:760px; margin:0 auto;
overflow:-moz-scrollbars-vertical}
body * {text-align:left}
Using ems in the body element causes IE to behave erratically when resizing
fonts.
Using % fixes this issue.
Using 100% in the body element causes rounding issues in Opera.
Using > 101% causes issue with Safari.
Further info:
http://www.websemantics.co.uk/tutorials/useful_css_snippets/#leveller
Hope it helps
Mike
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kara O'Halloran - Eduka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 October 2005 10:03
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Flexible Font sizes in tables in ie
hi guys,
Another possibly silly question but I've done quite a bit of searching on this
now and found nothing.
I'm setting my font size at 0.8em in my body class. In firefox this works fine
across the site, but in ie, the text inside my table cells appears larger.
I've tried setting a font size to td but then it appears smaller in ff (as it
should).
I think if I set a base of 1em in the body it would solve my problems, but then
I have to apply font size 75% to make everything the size I want it, and that
would cause much the same problem as it cascades down and potentially end up
with really mini fonts throughout the site...
Now, is there a way that I can cater for both browsers here?
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