>
> I've just installed Opera, to expand my testing abilities.
>
> A site I'm working on uses many repetitive functional links that I've
> given block display and background-images to, in order to display them
> as icons. However they also contain text for the purposes of print and
> non-visual browsing.
>
> These are the essential components of my method:
>
> <a class="draftlink">View draft</a>
>
> .draftlink {font-size: 1px; font-size: 0;}
>
>
> The font-size of 0 is ideal, but only FireFox will actually swallow that
> whole, so for the fussy browsers I've given the ability to render the
> font as small as possible, at 1px.
>
> /However/, Opera is doubly arrogant in that it seems to be deciding that
> 1px is too small arbitrarily. The DOM inspector tells me the computed
> style is font-size: 9px. At a wild guess I'd say this is a UI decision
> the developers have made, judging text any smaller than 9px not to be
> allowed.
>
> There are no overriding styles apart from the ones I described, no
> inherited modifiers, or anything. Why is Opera doing this and how can I
> tell it not to?

Have to ask the question. Why ever would you want to?
Ask yourself the question. If someone has images turned off, they won't be
too impressed with a page full of 1px text instead and they will go
elsewhere.

Leave as is woul dbe my advice. Maybe Opera knows better!!

Ian
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