- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:58:56 -0400
- To: sam <samuelp@iinet.net.au>
- CC: Gabriel Zackari <gabriel.zackari@gmail.com>, www-style@w3.org
On 4/30/10 6:08 AM, sam wrote: > So what is really being asked for is the ability lock a block's > font-size to its height: this.font-size = this.height ... This isn't doable in general. Consider this case: <div style="width: 0; font-size: our-magic-value"> Some text </div> What's the height of the div? > Very useful when making buttons of different sizes. > The text would allways keep to the size of the button. As someone who habitually browses with a 13px minimal font size set, I can tell you that people who do this sort of thing right now end up with text in their buttons wrapping and covering up other things... Makes some websites well-nigh unusable. -Boris
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