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February 14, 2002 Resizing Text and Cascading Style Sheets

In tonight's bootcamp segment, Leo said that HTML pages that use cascading style sheets can't have the text resized by the user, unless the user overrides the font sizes in the accessibility options. This is not strictly true. My entire site uses CSS, and you can change the text size using Ctrl-scroll, or by changing the IE browser options under View, Text Size. This is because I use "relative" font size units, such as 120%. If a web page author specifies the font size in points or pixels, such as 12pt or 14px, then the text size cannot be changed with Ctrl-scroll or "View, Text Size". I have put up the following page which demonstrates the difference:

Resizable Text And Cascading Style Sheets

Posted by Christy on February 14, 2002 11:41 PM

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