text sizing

[bugbear]

Is there a current "best practice" for text sizing?

My goal is a have a web page (web application actually)
which looks the same (more or less) on Mac IE5, PC IE6,
Mozilla, Konqueror and Safari. (Not NS4!). The page should
also scale for user preferance/accessibility reasons.

Pixel-perfect layout is *not* a priority; indeed,
I have already gone to considerable effort to
use (and integrate) these 2 ideas
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/customcorners/

I am quite happy to style up the entire page
(i.e. define sizes for h1-6 etc).

I have read about various "issues" with fonts sizes
and browsers.

I have looked for FAQ (or similar) on this,
and come up empty.

So - for consistent, cross browser, scaleable
font-sizes, what's my best plan?

BugBear

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

bugbear wrote:

Is there a current "best practice" for text sizing?
Yes.
I have looked for FAQ (or similar) on this, and come up empty.
The technique is discussed in these groups almost daily.
So - for consistent, cross browser, scaleable font-sizes, what's my
best plan?

body { font-size: 100%; }
h1 { font-size: 150%; } ... [rest of hx slightly smaller]
..legalese { font-size: 85%; }

There. That was easy!

Also see how to make columns and other parts flow with a visitor's
text resizing.
http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev...ft-column.html

Ben doesn't even assign a font-size here, but I'd recommend using the
body sizing, due to a bug in some versions of IE. Do remember that the
majority of your visitors will only ever use one browser, so
pixel-perfect 'cross-browser' layout is really not very important.

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-bts
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[Stan Brown]

"bugbear" wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

Is there a current "best practice" for text sizing?

Yes: don't.

Or rather, set body and p and td and th to 100% (to avoid some IE
bug) and et other sizes in percents as well.

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/