Re: IE5 for Mac & dpi preference

by Freda Lockert <fredalockert(at)clara.co.uk>

 Date:  Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:16:16 +0100
 To:  hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
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>I define the fonts with external stylesheets... 
>Basically, it's 10pt Arial that he's not getting good mileage out of.  I've
>tried 10ems, and 10px with no luck.  I need to keep the font size relatively
>small or I'll get a lot of undesirable word wrapping. 
>
>Anyone have a possible work around on this?  I wouldn't mind doing some
>reading on it, I just don't know where to find the answer.  Can you help me
>get started on that reading?


Try "Cascading Style Sheets - Designing for the Web" by Haakon Lie 
and Bert Bos, second edition. The website for the book is at 
http://www.awl.com/css. There's a good discussion on using ems in the 
book. The authors help write the CSS  specs.

Freda






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