How to get unchangeable text size in Dreamweaver?

unchangeable text size in IExplorer

[joaoleitao]

hi
how can i set the options in dreamweaver to get unchangeable text size on a webpage in a normal HTML extension page? i somehow have the small fonts on my dreamweaver page, but then passing to IExplorer, the texts fits the requirements i have on my brower regarding text size --> VIEW -->text size-->small, medium, big, extra big.

how can i set the text size not to be chnaged my users browser text options?

thank you
joao

[caine]

2 questions in one.

1st - unless you go to a heck of a lot of effort, a visitors browsers settings will always have control over the look, personally i work to the defualts of the various browsers, specifically IE, Opera, Mozilla/Netscape on MS and Nix platforms.

2nd - setting a standard text size using dreamweaver, obviously in the properties bar of DM you can set sizes, but different browsers on different operating systems and hardware will output different results. An example, with IE on my PC's on W2K and XP i can get a site to look consistent, however once i look at a website through my laptop which is XP based but with an unusual graphics output extended XGA, it changes text and layout drammatically. Becuase of this comprimise is necessary to get the balance that suits all - hence a best fit solution.

Personally in your situation, i would download opera 7.5 (free-bie) and see how your page looks in that, and also mozilla - and work between a balance of all three of the major browsers for a general best fit solution.

[joaoleitao]

hi there caine, thank for the reply, in fact i've tryied my site in some other browsers including mac also, and the web site just looks awful if i can set the text for a small font. i've seen other html site which dont change the size of the fonts. what is their secret? cant it be a way?
joao

[caine]

In the properties panel, there is a text size, you need to highlight the text in question, then change the size of the text - default text size in DW is 3 or none, if you want to make it smaller then change it to 2, any smaller and you will alienate viewers with large resolutions above the 1280*960.

I'm assuming that your quite new to Dreamweaver?

If so then i would recommend doing the tutorial which is built into the program.

Help [tab] > Tutorials > Adding Content > Inserting and Formatting Text.

This will give you a reasonable coverage of all the on page control you need with both HTML and CSS if you decide after reading that its a better method of text format control.

[hannamyluv]

They are most likly using CSS to dictate the font size. If you really, really want to do this, pop on over to the CSS forum here and post your question. I know it's done with CSS but I can't remember how, b/c I would never use it.

I will caution against limiting your font size. While your site may look best at a certain font size, that doesn't mean that everyone wants to look at it in that size. You are alienating a certain portion of your audience if you limit the font for yourown astetic reasons.

[victor]

_{^{enforcing fixed font sizes is both annoying and pointless -- they can always be overridden one way or another.
The best way to remove users' rights to see your content the way they want to see it is to serve them PDFs. But even that is not perfect.}}

[joaoleitao]

thank you everyone for the wise answers.
joao

[fwordboy]

in the head

<style type="text/css">
body{
 font-size: 14px;
}
</style>

however its not really reccommended, having seen how small the small font setting on IE makes the text, I doubt anyone actually resizes their text in IE to smaller than default. They are far more likely to resize it to be larget than default.