Text Size differences on Internet Browsers

[Nancee]

I created a website, but I just found out that depending upon the text size
the user has set for the internet brower, the website looks wierd. Looks
fine if the text size is Medium, but if they have it as Larger or Largest,
everything is jumbled.

Can I fix or set that in the website itself so it doesn't change based upon
the user settings?

Thanks, in advance, for all the great advice I hope to get

 

[Nancee]

Oh... I should add I use FP2003 I suppose... sorry

 

[Ronx]

Basic rules to avoid this situation:

1) Avoid use of layers which contain large amounts of text - more than 5
words is a large amount in this context. Layers can be used (with care)
for menus, or deliberately overlapping images, but avoidance is best if
text is involved.

2) Avoid setting the height attribute on tables, table cells and other
HTML elements - except images, you should set the height attribute on
images. Avoiding height includes using CSS. There are ways to get
around this, such as the scrolling <div> where any overflow will produce
a scrollbar to accommodate the excess text. But this could look ugly
with half a dozen scroll bars on the page.

3) Do not use VML text boxes. These are text boxes produced from the
Drawing toolbar. These text boxes are represented in FireFox and Opera
as low quality images so should be avoided anyway.
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/vml-graphics.htm explains this, and
demonstrates how changing text size or browser portal size can affect
the page layout.

4) Test the pages frequently in multiple browsers (at least IE and
FireFox), using different text settings and different browser portal
sizes.


If you give a link to a faulty page advice pertinent to that page can be
given.