Different font size in my navigation bar

[twan.vanberkel]

Dear all,

I have a problem in difference in font size on my navigation bar.
On different Windows PCs with IE5-IE6 the font size differs.
At first I try to fix it to place <font> tags around the text like:
<table summary=" " width="100%" class="blokstij l3" cellpadding="10 pt">
<tr>
<td class="venster" >
<a class="hlink2" target="content " href="thome.htm ">· <font
face="Arial" size="2"><b>Hom e/Visie</b></font></a>
<br />
<a class="hlink2" target="content "
href="dienstpro duct.htm#kader" ><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>·
Kader</b></font></a>
<br />
</td>
</tr>
</table>

This to circumvent the problem, but it does not always work !
Normally the font size was coming from a CSS sheet.
See for yourself on http://www.t-webvisio.nl

Can anybody help me to get a fixed even size font on every kind of
browser ?

Regards,

Twan

[Christoph Paeper]

*t************* @organon.com* <tw************ @organon.com>:

On different Windows PCs with IE5-IE6 the font size differs.
So what?

After a quick glance at your CSS, I see you use 'pt' and 'px' for
font-sizes, both aren't well suited for the job ('em' is best); a
combination of both only can make it worse. Furthermore it looks as if you
don't take much adavantage from the cascade and selectors and thus have an
overly complex stylesheet.

In general you shouldn't need to set 'font-size' on inline elements like
'a', 'font-family' maybe a little less seldom, because the inherited values
fit the best most of the time.
At first I try to fix it to place <font> tags around the text like:
Argh! Yet you throw in a third kind of font-size dimensions.
<table summary=" " width="100%" class="blokstij l3" cellpadding="10 pt">
IIRC the obsolete HTML attribute 'cellpading' takes only a number as value,
which is then interpreted as pixels, but this is ciwas, not ciwah.
Can anybody help me to get a fixed even size font on every kind
of browser ?

Why would you want such a mad thing? It's luckily impossible.

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[Philipp Lenssen]

tw************@ organon.com wrote:

Can anybody help me to get a fixed even size font on every kind of
browser ?

What, even on text-to-speech browsers?

If you understand web authoring, you would know it's impossible and not
useful to ask for it either. If you absolutely need to you can suggest
a pixel-based font in the CSS, which _might_ be overridden by users who
know how to do it, and _might_ render text inaccesible for users who
don't know how to alter it.

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