While working out the font sizes on my CSS it made me wonder. What is the "default" if there is one, for IE browsers?
The choices are:largest, large, medium smaller, smallest.
I'm guessing medium? but it is a quess. Anyone know for sure?
Thanks,
Sam
Busy posted this at 09:43 — 2nd October 2005.
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I believe the font family is times new roman and size about 13, different font styles have different default height values, in CSS medium or large are usually the two closest depending on the font type and family.
Make yourself up a compassion chart, use the old font tag as a base and CSS as comparsion, change the font familes around (verdana, arial, times ...) and see what differences you get, better than reading the dictionary but not quite as good as a night out
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Megan posted this at 13:52 — 2nd October 2005.
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But what is the default setting in IE??? That's the question. I'm not sure about this either - my work machine often defaults itself to "small", and someone I work with was having problems with hers setting itself to "extra small". So is "medium" really the default? It should be. Or does it have something to do with system font sizes?? Can we expect that most people would have it set to "medium" and define relative font sizes that way or would it be something else?
I usually set my font size to about 80-90% for sans serif and I think that works quite well.
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popinsiteads posted this at 14:27 — 2nd October 2005.
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when i first got my computer, and this is what every other computer i use is like - it was medium. It is the middle setting so that's my guess aswell
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inet_ventures posted this at 18:57 — 2nd October 2005.
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This is very interesting and I'd love to know the answer. This all got started when people were reviewing my site and noticed the font size was not adjustable. I made some CSS changes which brought up this question about what the default font setting is.
How about some feedback on the FONT on my website, not the web design or any kind of web site review...just the font. Just click on one of the signature links.
I have it set to:
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 92%;
and in the footer I have it set to:
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 89%;
Thanks,
Sam Warren
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Megan posted this at 21:26 — 2nd October 2005.
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Yours look good now, Sam
kazimmerman posted this at 21:53 — 2nd October 2005.
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Looks good, except for one minor thing.
(In IE at 800x600) When I set the font size to larger or largest, the footer doesn't display correctly. It's broken at the end. Again, it's very minor and most people won't even notice.
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inet_ventures posted this at 23:23 — 2nd October 2005.
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Thanks Megan
Mscreashuns - I couldn't figure out how to prevent that. The background is an image and has a fixed width & height. Suggestions anyone on how you handle this?
Thanks!
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kazimmerman posted this at 00:01 — 3rd October 2005.
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Why don't you just set a background color for that section so that if it overflows there will still be color behind it. I think it just needs to be white anyway.
-Kurtis
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