[Javascript] Control IE "text size"

Josiah Gordon jgordon at directfile.com
Tue Sep 24 12:10:39 CDT 2002


<<ou can set fixed font size by using Cascading Style Sheets (css)>>

Just a heads up and my $0.02.

This is a workaround, not a solution.

In Netscape 7.0+, Mozilla, and Opera (as well as others) the browser does
not allow a page author to hijack the user's browser by forcing an explicit
text size. IE is wrong to do it, and designing a page that insists on this
behavior will only frustrate your users with bad eyes or hi-res laptop
screens and will only break when IE changes to the correct implementation of
style sheets. You have been warned. Any page designed like this will break
on all current browsers in a short time.


--Josiah Gordon




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