Disabling the user from changing font sizes?

  • How can i do this correctly? I know that <noresize> deals with frames, but i want to do this so people cannot change the size of my fonts. If they do so, it changes the location of the text, which in effect. changes my template.

    Does anyone no how to do this? or where i might want to throw this tag in to make it work like im trying to explain?

    Thank you in advance! this has been bugging me for quite some time.

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  • You might try checking out some CSS sites or CSS forums.

    Instead of having your text defined by using em use px. This will still scale with FF, but won’t in IE. Also, you’d have better control over the text.

    That’s odd lawtai, my site uses almost all em declarations and it still isn’t resizable in IE.

    Set your font sizes in “pt”. IE won’t resize the text period AFAIK. Pt is deprecated and may not validate depending on doctype but maybe that won’t matter to you.

    If you lean on the Ctrl + “+” key long enough in FF, you can make the text gargantuan. Even a few clicks of the + key may “break” the design. But it’s the tradeoff between that and being able to see the text (if your eyes are tired and old, as mine are).

    Even if you create the pixel perfect design, with all font sizes declared (in pts. no less), FF goes around that. IE does to a lesser extent, but the results can be really hideous.

    A lot of designers started out as graphic artists, who designed mostly for print media. The web is not print yet designers (myself included) have been attempting to corral the content, often with disastrous results

    basketball: I’m not sure if this is true, but my guess is that it doesn’t scale on your site because you’re basing your em off of the font-size decleration in your body which is set with px. If you change that to %, then your site should scale with IE.

    Oh that makes sense, thanks for the clarificatoin lawtai

    Thread Starter drpepper

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    thanks for all the help, im still trying to get this working successfully

    lawtai is right on the money. In body set up font-size 100%.(whatever) Then IE will do the em thing .

    One of the main reasons for font resizing (as far as I’m aware) is to accomodate users with poor vision. My old boss used to double or triple the font sizes on all webpages. This made the designs look awful in almost every case, but he was able to use the sites where he would not have been able to otherwise. This seems pretty valuable to me.

    In any event, I don’t think it’s possible to completely disable client-side font resizing.

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