On 3/5/2011 10:35 AM, css-d-requ...@lists.css-discuss.org wrote: > From: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> To: "css discuss" > <css-d@lists.css-discuss.org> Subject: Re: [css-d] Trying to make text > lighter than 100 Message-ID: <666BFB384B304003AF58CE70FC5C2133@JukanPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original Keith Purtell wrote: >> > I'm using a carat character instead of an image of an arrow to point >> > upwards. > I suppose you mean the circumflex "^" (sometimes called the caret). I wonder > why you don't use an upwards arrow character instead. If you don't know how > to enter it in your editing environment, you can use the character reference > ↑. The character is present in the Arial font, for example, so you > would not have any font issues with it. (I'm not saying it would be a better > character for a link that points backwards in browsing history. I'm just > saying that it resembles an arrow much more than the circumflex does.) > >> > I was able to use vertical-align to bring it closer to the >> > text it accompanies, but for some reason I've lost the ability to >> > make the carat character larger. Here's a link.... >> > >> > http://www.keithpurtell.com/kthings/gifts-of-song.htm#player >> > >> > and here's the CSS so far.... >> > >> > div.up { >> > font-size:10em; >> > font-weight:100 !important; >> > vertical-align:-.3em; >> > } > I don't see any div element with class="up" there, so the > > Anyway, the idea of setting huge font size for something and then trying to > reduce its font weight to the minimum is rather... odd. > First of all, thanks for letting me know there was a character reference for an upward arrow. I have only been using that method for things like "smart quotes" and em dashes etc so far. I need to research what other characters/symbols are available. Second, thanks everyone for the wealth of info re font weight. Finally, if you viewed the page when the circumflex/carat was either huge or way above the text, I apologize; although I was forcing my Firefox cache to empty each time I made a change, for some reason I didn't see what was happening until a reboot.
-Keith ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
