Utterly baffled by all that mix-up with px, points, ems etc. used to define font sizes, it would help me greatly if I found some web pages which I could use as quick visual reference for conversion, let's say from pixels to points or vice-versa, etc. - a sort of conversion table. For instance, I now wish to convert all font points to pixels over a lot of pages - a headache. Any suggestions?<br />
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Cheers! Tania<!--content-->The thing is with font sizes on a web page is that they are never a true size but relative to how the user has set up her monitor. If you have a scroll wheel on your mouse try holding down Ctrl and turning the wheel.<br />
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You see font size change relatively so you cannot compare it to pt size.<!--content-->There are two types of lengths, Relative (em, ex & px) and Absolute (in, cm, mm, pt & pc). Relative lengths are more useful as you don't need to know the screen size of the browser.<br />
Find out more at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#values">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#values</a><!-- m --><!--content-->but then id you change all of them to px, netscape4.x don't like px, so you might have some trouble.<!--content-->See:<br />
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<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/properties/font/fontsize.htm">http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/p ... ntsize.htm</a><!-- m --><!--content-->And, let's not forget percentage sizes.<br />
A font size of 100% usually appears as 12 pt, but is relative to the browser settings.<!--content-->
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Cheers! Tania<!--content-->The thing is with font sizes on a web page is that they are never a true size but relative to how the user has set up her monitor. If you have a scroll wheel on your mouse try holding down Ctrl and turning the wheel.<br />
<br />
You see font size change relatively so you cannot compare it to pt size.<!--content-->There are two types of lengths, Relative (em, ex & px) and Absolute (in, cm, mm, pt & pc). Relative lengths are more useful as you don't need to know the screen size of the browser.<br />
Find out more at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#values">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#values</a><!-- m --><!--content-->but then id you change all of them to px, netscape4.x don't like px, so you might have some trouble.<!--content-->See:<br />
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<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/properties/font/fontsize.htm">http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/p ... ntsize.htm</a><!-- m --><!--content-->And, let's not forget percentage sizes.<br />
A font size of 100% usually appears as 12 pt, but is relative to the browser settings.<!--content-->