Text size formatting

I am having difficulty establishing a text size that remains constant in my 'send' email. If I go one space beyond the previous, it goes to tiny text. Why can't I establish a 'page' setup where the text will be uniform and dependable? Thank you.
[email protected]

yes it is a pain. and you have correctly identified the issue. You move the cursor "out of bounds" and it is no longer in an area that contains any formatting information at all.
My personal workaround as I like to fiddle in my mail a lot when writing them is to press enter about 6 or 7 times as soon as I get to the write window and then use the mouse to move the pointer back to the first line. It is not foolproof, but is stops most of the annoyances.
This add-on https://freeshell.de/~kaosmos/quoteandcomposemanager-en.html has a stabilise font option that is also quite helpful as it wraps the entire massage is a font tag so it is much harder to go "out of bounds"
Need install instructions http://chrisramsden.vfast.co.uk/3_How_to_install_Add-ons_in_Thunderbird.html

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screenshot here: http://www.pbase.com/paulduke/image/64910338/original
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Hello,
There are many pleasant folks around here, including all
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> .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
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annotation box or
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different markup
> and CSS. Without knowing the intentions it's hard to
impossible to give
> a proper and efficient solution.
>
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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

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