Adjust CSS Font Sizes using ASP

Hello, I'm searching for a script that will allow a web user to increase or decrease font sizes on a site using a series of buttons. Right now my fonts are all set to relative em sizes in the style sheet. However, the only scripts I can find for this purpose are style sheet switchers which require you to maintain multiple sheets and save the information in a cookie... and I see this as being tedious over time. any helpful suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards,
Daniel

Jan 9 '08 #1

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Because you are talking about customizing an appearance for individual users, no matter how you do this, it will be tedious.

Even so, you asked for a solution.

Use global stylesheets and store the user's choice of font-size into a session variable using ASP.

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<%

session("font-size") = user's choice

%>

For each page's global style sheet:

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<head>

   <style type="text/css">

      body {font-size: <%= session("font-size") %>;}

   </style>

</head>

You cannot do this with remote CSS files (i.e. <link rel=stylesheet...) because ASP is executed before the file is sent to the user; CSS is rendered by the client. The client cannot interpret ASP code, so you'd end up with this:

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body {font-size: <%= session("font-size") %>

... actually being sent to the browser.

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