[BNM] Controlling / Restricting Max & Min Text Sizes

David Andrew david.andrew at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 09:35:01 GMT 2008


Lo chap

Lookie here may help

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/fonts/

On 27/03/2008, Chris Adams <chris at fibonacci-designs.co.uk> wrote:
> Generally I use ems to control text within a page with a body text-size
>  starting at 0.7em. As is of great importance I want to give my users the
>  ability to resize at will, keeping my sites as accessible as possible.
>  Problem that I consistently find is (in particular) ie when you change
>  the browser text size prefs to 'Larger' or heaven forbid 'Largest' the
>  relative size of the text shoots through the roof. Likewise reducing the
>  size of the text to 'Smallest' turns it into incy wincey ant size
>  illegible text.
>  Is there an obvious, accessible and validatable way of controlling this
>  text size or are we totally at the whim of crazy bugger text resizing?
>  In anticipation of someone telling me how simple it is to make this
>  so... thanks ;]
>  Chris
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