How can I make my text size static?

[hutt5]

I'm looking for a way to make my text size static. In other words, if I go to my site from someone's computer, I can change the size with "view/text size" in the browser (IE).

 

Is there a way to set the text size so that it cannot be changed this way?

Sometimes my text, especially on the welcome page, is showing up way too big due to the settings on the browser, and it just looks silly...

 

Thanks!

[custodian]

I'm looking for a way to make my text size static. In other words, if I go to my site from someone's computer, I can change the size with "view/text size" in the browser (IE).

 

Is there a way to set the text size so that it cannot be changed this way?

Sometimes my text, especially on the welcome page, is showing up way too big due to the settings on the browser, and it just looks silly...

 

Thanks!

 

My wife use to work as a medical transcriptionist at a well known top hospital.. a fellow co-worker was nearly blind, her screen would literally show about 10 words max as she typed.. she was great at her job but her vision sucked.

 

I don't think you can stop people from enlarging their text, I know several older people that increase the size and pay no attention to the layout of the page because they know that its the larger font causing it.

 

Actually the only way I know of to lock the text would be to make the text all images.. but that would suck too.

[fredbird67]

I don't think this is possible in any browser, and even if it were possible, I don't think it would be a wise move. Just like the other person to respond to this post said, the only way you could do that is to put all your text in the form of an image, and that would be a real waste of bandwidth, not to mention, it would really tick off dialup users (of which I am still one, in fact), since it would take a few seconds or maybe a minute or two for all those images to download.

 

Another reason you don't want to do so is for people with limited vision, just like the other poster said.

 

But there's also a third reason you don't want to do this: I'd say that easily some 90 percent or so of all Internet users are running some form or other of Windows, and the typical standard font sizes specified in stylesheets work just fine in Windows. But what very few people know, especially if they've never used an OS other than Windows, is that, for example, a 12-point font on Windows is not going to appear as the same size as a 12-point font on either a Macintosh or Linux -- it'll look smaller on a Mac or Linux, and for the record, I happen to be a Mandrake Linux user and I like it MUCH better than Windows!

 

Because of this, even though I have pretty decent vision, I almost always have to increase the font size whenever I'm viewing something on the Web. I am, in fact, a web developer, and it's for this very reason that, in stylesheets, I indicate the sizes for fonts on all web pages I create in percentages instead of fixed point numbers due to this little bit of font-size quirkiness in Linux and on a Mac, and Windows users won't notice the difference, either, unless, of course, they look at your CSS code. And that little bit of quirkiness is one more reason why I wouldn't do this, even if it is possible to do so. If someone wants their text to appear larger than most other people, there's probably a reason for them doing so, so I wouldn't interfere with their ability to adjust text sizes -- it'll only tick 'em off.

 

Just my thoughts,

Fred in Lexington, KY

[jasonabc]

If you use fixed text sizes (font-size:12px for example) and are running IE6 or less then View > Text Size will not change the size of the font.

 

Microsoft corrected this with IE7 (currently in beta) but other browsers - most notably Firefox and Opera you have always been able to bump the font size up or down regardless of the size set by the stylesheet (or the font size tag) by simply holding down CTRL and scrolling the mouse wheel.

 

If someone goes to your site and decides to bump the text right up - who cares?? The only place it will be affected is their browser and if they have text size set right up then every site they visit will look weird.

 

Don't worry about it - you can't set your site to cover settings on every single visitors browser or computer.

[boxtel]

I'm looking for a way to make my text size static. In other words, if I go to my site from someone's computer, I can change the size with "view/text size" in the browser (IE).

 

Is there a way to set the text size so that it cannot be changed this way?

Sometimes my text, especially on the welcome page, is showing up way too big due to the settings on the browser, and it just looks silly...

 

Thanks!

 

if your pages are showing up wrong then you have a server setting problem, so instead of trying to kill the symptoms on the browsers, maybe direct your attention to solving the problem on your server.

[♥Vger]

you can't set your site to cover settings on every single visitors browser

 

You can (just about), but it requires a great deal of knowledge on writing CSS.

 

Vger