Re: Font size question

by "Tim Rivera" <lists(at)timrivera.com>

Date:	Sat, 3 May 2003 02:25:44 -0400
To:	<hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>, "Janet Burgess" <burgessj(at)post.queensu.ca>
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> I know this is a very easy question but could someone explain to me why
> some text becomes larger when the "view  - font size"  is changed in the
> browser, while on other web pages the text size cannot be altered.

Hello Janet,

In IE, font sizes defined by pixels are absolute, and are not changed, while
font sizes defined by "em", "ex", or a percentage are relative and can be
changed.

Opera and Mozilla change the size of all text.


Tim
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