Fixing my text size in a browser

Question

Greetings-
I'm in Dreamweaver CS3, building with CSS Div containers. Is
there a way to have my text a fixed size? In other words, most
browsers allow the user to increase or decrease the onscreen text
size, is there a way to disable this browser functionality? The
goal here is layout consistency, of course.
Thanx-

Answer 1

Hello,
There are many pleasant folks around here, including all
those who have
offered advice and explanations to help you.
Perhaps, from experience, they may see a flaw in your design
idea that will
cause your site to have problems.
They aren't attacking your design or idea. They are trying to
save you from
a re-work later when you discover that, for example, your
1000x1000 box
causes a horizontal scroller in browser windows less than
1000px wide. Of
course, nothing would be centered then for the millions of
people who have a
browser width of 800.
I have to say I saw a lot of good advice, and good questions
designed to try
to help you. I didn't see any HTML toolsheds (that really was
funny, by the
way :-) ), no dismissive gospel, etc. Just solid advice .
When you wrote "sorry to disappoint", I'm afraid that does
sound arrogant.
Think about it. People here are happy to help you, as they
are everyone
else. Frankly, if someone didn't like what you wrote I doubt
he or she would
even notice if you posted again, let alone spend one second
caring about it
to the point of being disappointed. Implying you have that
kind of impact on
people in a forum of thousands of anonymous posts is what
sounds arrogant.
I hope you'll stick around. There's a lot to learn from the
people who are
here to help.
Many will save you a lot of work down the road, even if what
they are saying
doesn't make sense to you right now.
If people didn't think they were helping you or saving you
from a mistake
down the line, they wouldn't be wasting their time trying to
answer your
post. Many of the frequent volunteers here started asking
questions in this
forum years ago, and were exactly where you are when they
started.
Maybe they really aren't "bashing" your idea or "preaching"
to you.
Maybe they just know something you don't yet, and it's at
least worth the
benefit of the doubt.
All of the different ideas and suggestions are one of the
things that make
this forum a great one.
Take care
Tim
"Michael Fesser" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> .oO(Stanley22)
>
>> Well, look, you're certainly entitled to your
opinions on what makes good
>> web
>>design, but you're a tad in denial with your fixation
on an "expandable,
>>flexible site". Case in point is the countless (and
beautiful)
>>professional
>>websites which possess a FIXED width and/or height
format.
>
> Many of these sites break with another font size than
what the designer
> "optimized" the site for. Not very professional.
Additionally with some
> more thinking beforehand almost every layout could be
kept more flexible
> and userfriendly instead of imposing totally unnecessary
restrictions.
>
>>One method isn't
>>more correct than the other.
>
> Indeed, but one method may cause more problems than the
other. Not for
> you, though, but for your visitors.
>
>>It's just a different way of doing things. All of
>>those dimensions I gave you were entirely random.
There is no "why"
>>attached.
>
> It happens often enough (not only here, but also in
other newsgroups),
> that an unexperienced user asks for a solution to a
particular problem,
> while with just a little bit more knowledge it would be
possible to
> completely avoid that problem. Many issues a beginner is
trying to solve
> would never have been made by a pro. This is why the
helpful pro often
> asks for the reasons and intentions, so that he might be
able to give a
> better and often completely different solution the
beginner would never
> have thought of.
>
> Such a little box as mentioned by you could be anything.
It could be a
> navigation bar, an image with text wrap-around, an
annotation box or
> something else - all different purposes, which require
different markup
> and CSS. Without knowing the intentions it's hard to
impossible to give
> a proper and efficient solution.
>
>>Who cares why I want the white box 30px in from the
top and left of the
>>blue
>>box? It's completely irrelevant. This is merely an
exercise to ascertain
>>the
>>proper method in Dreamweaver to get a div container
to expand downward in
>>the
>>event the viewer increase his browser's text size. A
simple enough
>>question, I
>>thought.
>
> And I've already given a simple enough solution multiple
times. The
> behaviour you want is HTML's _default_ - you won't have
to do anything
> at all! If you would know a bit about HTML as you
indicated before in
> this thread, then you should've already known this.
>
>>And for that simple inquiry, a great many of you seem
compelled to
>>take me to the "HTML woodshed" for a paddlin',
because I was audacious
>>enough
>>to ask a "newb" question! Sheesh! You pros really
should check your big
>>heads
>>at the door. I did not ask for a diatribe describing
how wrong my design
>>philosophy is. I think it's really up to me how I
want to design, thank
>>you.
>
> Of course it is. But design is also about usability and
- especially in
> the Web - accessibility. A good look alone doesn't make
a good design. I
> just gave some hints on how to improve your site's
usability or at least
> how to avoid usability problems. How's that a diatribe?
Of course it's
> completely up to you to take these issues into account
or not.
>
>>As
>>a new forum user, I am not made to feel welcome at
all (with the exception
>>of
>>Mr. Malcolm, who has gotten the closest to providing
any sort of solution,
>>and
>>he managed to do it in a non-condescending fashion,
too). But I'm not
>>leaving,
>>either, (sorry to disappoint), because I have lots of
questions and there
>>might
>>be a few more pleasant folks in here somewhere.
>
> Quite an arrogant attitude today.
>
> Micha