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Scaling Containers and Their Text

Need help going smaller

         

Poor_Knight

8:34 pm on Feb 6, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi All -

Not a frequent poster but a frequent reader. The forums here have always been helpful and now I am asking for a little more guidance :)

I've been trying to shift out of my table design mode and into the CSS design mode. A recent site is actually my first completely table-less design. I have also been trying to keep accessibility in mind (also a new venture).

My problem is the enlarging/shrinking of the fonts. Specifically, shrinking the fonts in IE6. FF, IE7, and Opera are doing fine up or down. IE 6 goes up fine. I do not want the containers to shrink beyond a certain point which I've done using min-width/height. The other browsers obey my commands. But I know this doesn't work in IE6 and since the width/height is set in a relative value it will keep scaling down and distorting the site in an undesirable way.

I've seen this accomplished at other web sites (yahoo being one) with IE6 scaling up but also locking in a specified minimum. Can someone clue me in on how to do this?

Thx a mil!

mihai2u

4:08 am on Feb 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



"Min-Width for Internet Explorer"

Search for that on Google.

This problem is real well explained .. and are more than a couple of methods of doing this.

I used activeX (for sure not the best method, but the simplest) for achieving min-width for IE.

Cheers,
Mehigh