[thelist] CSS

Gary Finnigan gfinnigan at talk21.com
Sun Jun 10 22:31:36 CDT 2001


Rudy,
ASP and I think that does the trick perfectly.
Cheers
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: rudy <r937 at interlog.com>
To: evolt thelist <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 2:14 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] CSS


> > I would like people to be able to click on a link and load in a
> > different style sheet that will allow them to view a greater font
> > size. I know this can be done, but don't know how.
>
> hi gary
>
> lotsa ways, including one way that involves no work on your part at all
>
> the solution will depend on the technology available to you
>
> if you are running ASP, the aardvark has written up one approach that you
> can pretty much just lift as is --
>
>   http://evolt.org/article/asp/22/253/index.html
>
> if you are running Perl, see martin's article --
>
>   http://evolt.org/article/perl/17/4415/evolt.org
>
> you may not need to go so far as to utilize cookies if you provide a link
> that will append a query string to the url and use this to select a
> different style sheet, e.g.
>
>   http://example.com/index.html?css=size3
>
>
> the "no work on your part" would be not to specify a font size at all in
> your (single) style sheet -- you may then want to provide a link such as
> "Click Here To Change Font Size" which goes to a page that explains to the
> site visitors how to change the size of their fonts in their browser
>
> this is explained in The Dao of Web Design at
> http://www.alistapart.com/stories/dao/index.html
>
>
> rudy
>
>
>
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