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font-size-bigger-smaller? Wilhelm Kutting 09-19-2005
Posted by Wilhelm Kutting on September 19, 2005, 9:04 pm
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Hello, i have a xhtml-page with relative fontsizes.
Now i want to add some font-bigger or font-smaller possibility via a
icon on the page.
Just like pressing Ctrl-+ or Crtl- or Ctrl-0 in Firefox?

Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on September 19, 2005, 7:31 pm
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Wilhelm Kutting wrote:
> Hello, i have a xhtml-page with relative fontsizes.
> Now i want to add some font-bigger or font-smaller possibility via a
> icon on the page.

Why not just tell your visitors to use their browser's font resizing
choices?

"In IE, go to the View > Text Size ... "
"In Mozilla products, press Control-Plus (or) Minus ..."
"In Opera, use Control/MouseWheel... " and so on.

As long as you use percentages for all your font sizing, even IE will
work this way.

> Just like pressing Ctrl-+ or Crtl- or Ctrl-0 in Firefox?

Why reinvent the wheel? <g>

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Posted by Stan Brown on September 19, 2005, 8:52 pm
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:04:43 +0200 in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, Wilhelm Kutting favored us
with...
> Now i want to add some font-bigger or font-smaller possibility via a
> icon on the page.
> Just like pressing Ctrl-+ or Crtl- or Ctrl-0 in Firefox?

Why? People who care enough to do that will figure out how to do it
in their browser. Why waste time reinventing the wheel?

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Posted by PDannyD on September 19, 2005, 9:04 pm
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On Monday 19 September 2005 20:04, Wilhelm Kutting(wkutting@arcor.de) wrote

> Hello, i have a xhtml-page with relative fontsizes.
> Now i want to add some font-bigger or font-smaller possibility via a
> icon on the page.
> Just like pressing Ctrl-+ or Crtl- or Ctrl-0 in Firefox?

Is this an acceptable way to do it? It seems to work for Opera8.02 in a HTML
page and doesn't throw any errors in the javascript console. Does it work
for XHTML?

<p onClick="document.body.style.fontSize='200%'">Large text</p>
<p onClick="document.body.style.fontSize='100%'">Normal text</p>
<p onClick="document.body.style.fontSize='50%'">Tiny text</p>

You could replace the explicit instructions with functions instead but I've
not done that here so you can copy-n-paste them straight into your page and
try it for yourself.

Posted by Stan Brown on September 19, 2005, 8:53 pm
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:04:50 +0100 in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, PDannyD favored us with...
> Does it work
> for XHTML?
>
> <p onClick="document.body.style.fontSize='200%'">Large text</p>
> <p onClick="document.body.style.fontSize='100%'">Normal text</p>
> <p onClick="document.body.style.fontSize='50%'">Tiny text</p>

It doesn't even work for HTML.

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