[thelist] setting base font size in CSS and Netscape 4 collapsing when fontsizes are changed

[Saila, Craig]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Newbrook [mailto:roger.newbrook at kmsoftware.com]
> Sent: June 21, 2002 10:40 AM

> Firstly, does anyone know a workaround for Netscape 4
> trashing the stylesheet when a user tries toincrease the font

Have never experienced that one....

> was wondering how the basefont size (i know it's a depracated
> tag) in the stylesheet so that the relative sizes refer to
> this base font size.

Try setting something like:
 BODY { font-size: 1.5em; }
it may or may not work on all elements. NN4.x usually prefers that each
block element's size declared, and usually works best with pixels:
 BODY, TD, P, DIV, etc. { font-size: 16px; }

BTW, NN4.x is known to have problems with CSS and relative font-sizes,
so it may be a bit tricky to get the base font concept working, and it
may be the root of your font-sizing issue. You *may* want to consider
changing NN4.x's font sizes to pixels.

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Cheers,

Craig Saila
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