li***************@yahoo.com (Liam Gibbs) wrote:
Does anyone know how to make input fields smaller, using a smaller
font?
In HTML, you could try <small>...</small> or <font size="2">...</font>
around them. Browsers mostly ignore that, but that's what you can try
in HTML. The rest is not HTML, hence off-topic here.
I want to know how to make my textboxes and such like the
ones at http://www.gracenote.com/music/
You really do? That is, you would like to make the text size 11 pixels
even if such a size is completely unreadable to the user? Why? If your
design requires that, then the design is the problem.
but reading teh code
reveals they used a stylesheet to do this, and the stylesheet is
not within the public_html directory tree.
Whether they have anything like public_html is both invisible and
irrelevant to use.
The style sheets are accessible as Web resources, with URLs, but I'm
afraid that if told you how, I would also have to... tell you
that they're all wrong and should _not_ be used as examples.
(Look at the HTML source. Pick up the URL of the JavaScript code for
loading a style sheet - they use childish client-side "browser
sniffing". Use a browser that lets you access that URL without
executing the JavaScript code - Lynx will do fine, for one - and look
at the code, and pick up the style sheet you are interested in, like
http://www.gracenote.com/style/ie.css )
Text input size should _not_ be reduced. What might make a lot sense is
input { font-size: 100%; }
in a style sheet, since several browsers use a smaller font for input
elements than for copy text.
Surely the font size selected by the user for normal reading is best
for text input too - if some adjustment is needed, it should be in the
direction of making input text _bigger_ (since it's important to the
user and must be very legible, down to checking it in detail before
submitting).
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