webwiz — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:45:53 +0000

JeevesBond: Try this:

In IE 6 or 7: Go to Tools > Internet Options from the menu. From the "General" tab, press the Accessibility button at bottom right. Put a check mark (tick) against the 'Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages' and press OK.

(I did say you'd have to go through hoops!)

sin0cide — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:29:46 +0000

I think the reason why he wants to do this is because his layout does not allow the resizing of words very well without messing up the layout and in reality it is easier to stop the resizing then adjust the layout to be flexible. It might take longer to convert your pages to a more flexible design but in the long run it will save you headaches like this from popping up in the future.

JeevesBond — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:56:08 +0000

Realistically you can't stop users from changing the font size of your pages and stopping the one's who need to do this will just drive them away from your site. Teammatt3 is correct about IE6 though, you can stop the user from changing the text size using 'font-size' then specifying a value in pixels, e.g.
font-size: 16px;'
You'd have to test and see whether that works in IE7. Most browsers (I think IE7 included) are moving a to a page zoom model now, where the user can zoom-in on the page, rather than just increasing the text size. There's nothing you can do to stop the user doing that I'm afraid (nor should you try).

webwiz — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:16:56 +0000

Why would you want to do that? It seems pretty unfriendly to me.

Thankfully, it's not possible, in any browser. IE on Windows makes a visitor go through hoops to alter text size specified in pixels. But it can still be done. Sorry. (Not.)

teammatt3 — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:03:47 +0000

If you set the font-size to something in pixels it will prevent IE6 users from adjusting it from the View > Text Size option. I don't know about IE7 though.