- From: Andrew Clover <and@doxdesk.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 18:35:44 +0000
- To: www-style@w3.org
Franck Collineau <franck.collineau@rd.francetelecom.com> wrote:
> I have a solution for Netscape: font[size="8"] { font-size: 10pt; }
This is not a good solution even for browsers like Netscape 6 that do
support CSS2 selectors.
Firstly, <font size="8"> would not be valid HTML. The DTD does not enforce
it, but integer font size values must lie between 1 and 7.
Secondly, '10pt' will render differently on-screen between different
operating systems (it will be tiny on a Mac). Assuming you are not writing
a stylesheet for print-only usage, the physical length units (pt, mm, in...)
are a terrible choice. For fixed-sized fonts use 'px'. For normal,
resizable fonts, use 'em' or '%'.
I can't really understand why you would want to style an element that
is completely presentational in the first place, to be honest!
Incidentally, could you post in plain-text in the future please?
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Andrew Clover
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Received on Friday, 5 April 2002 13:38:12 UTC