UKNM: Font sizes in CSS/HTML

[Ben Hunt]

Michael wrote:

<<Er, I don't think you can specify 'point' type sizes on a web page. As you

all may know, it's a printer's measure of one seventy second of an inch and

needs to have an associated leading (space between rows of type). Clearly

such measures are nonesense on a computer screen at an unknown resolution

generated by an unknown web browser. The only relevance they have in

computing terms would be in a DTP package where they would be graphically

represented in relation to the onscreen paper size.

Or is there something about cascading style sheets that I don't know

about?>>


Yeah - in CSS you may specify either point size (12pt) or pixel size (12px)

for fonts, as well as the traditional relative font sizing (bigger, smaller

etc.)


Point size is meant to be relative to a normal average size, and the browser

works out what's best for us to see. Pixel size is absolute, and it's not a

good idea to use this for anything but the most exceptional reason because:

web users should be able to set the font size that suits their screen and

vision (some people *need* very large fonts), and if you set pixel sizes,

they can't control how they're viewed.


for loads more info, see:

http://www.webreview.com/pub/1999/12/03/style/index.html


Ben Hunt

Producer

Poulternet

ben [dot] huntpoulternet [dot] com

www.poulternet.com

0113 383 4200

direct: 285 6469



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