- From: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 12:10:28 +0200
- To: James Aylett <sja20@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: Tom Magliery <mag@ncsa.uiuc.edu>, www-html@w3.org
James Aylett writes: > My initial reaction was > "How do I scale down the page?", but after a while I decided that what I > really wanted to do was scale the images with respect to the page width - > ie, in a similar way to using <TD WIDTH=50%> I'd have <IMG ... WIDTH=50%> > for each. This can easily be expressed in CSS [1]: <IMG .. STYLE="width: 50%"> The percentage refers to the parent element's width which will be closely related to -- if not the same as -- the page width. Microsoft's Internet Explorer [2] has initial support for CSS, but the above has probably not been implemented yet. Using CSS, one can set the width on any element. CSS does't specify how the scaling is to be performed since different media types scale differently. E.g., a text element should scale differently from an image element. [1] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-css1 [2] http://www.microsoft.com/IE/htmlext/default.htm Regards, -h&kon Hakon W Lie, W3C/INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France http://www.w3.org/people/howcome howcome@w3.org
Received on Wednesday, 3 July 1996 06:11:30 UTC