Should be font-size:smaller; rather than "small" Not too sure if I understand you. Can't you just wrap the home page content in a div? div style="font-size:smaller;">Or 80%, or 8pt;</div>
This does work in IE6, IE7 and FF. I've put up a really trivial page at http://www.itworldcanada.info/test/t2.htm to show this. -----Original Message----- From: Don L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:16 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: default font size for a page >Come on in, the water's fine! CSS is vital these days, and I promise you'll >love it. > >To answer your question (maybe), you can use many units to specify >font-size: pt, px, em, small, smaller etc. (But not all of them resize >properly to meet accessibility requirements). > >At a quick glance, I can't see anything wrong with your style, IE7 is a LOT >better than IE6. So what are you applying that style to? <span>? <div>? <p>? >and what is it's scope? > >I generally apply a font style to * at the start of my css, (<body> isn't >bad either, there's a couple of inheritence issues that the * overcomes) >then overwite that default further down as required. > > >Never paid too much attention to CSS, now it seems to bite me. Is it >possible to set a default font size to, say, 85%? so that, all the key ideas >can be viewed on one screen without scrolling (suppose we know users' screen >size)? Also, the majority of the user community is not supposed to know how >to set font size with their browser. > >My attempt of using >style="font-family:'Trebuchet >MS',Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:.85em;" >or similar approach does not seem to have desired effect with IE7. > >Thanks. Thanks, Dave. Well, 'historically' usually the designer type took care of css, now the weird thing is, when I tried to set default font size to small, IE7 didn't 'barge'. I feel this is a catch-22 situation. On one hand, if the home page using a smaller font size, subsequent pages do not look good while leaving the default font size to 100% does not make the starting page look good. Don't know how to reconcile the esthetic and practicality. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:303589 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
