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Adding a Font Size Selector - best practice?

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Bob asked on 22 Jul 2008, 11:32 AM
What is the suggested method to implement a Font Size selector for a site?   Should this be handled as a skin, or some other method?

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answered on 22 Jul 2008, 12:20 PM
Hello Bob,

When it comes to font-size for a website, I personally would recommend using a global external stylesheet file and the following approach: the font-size forthe <body> is set to 62.5%, which resets it to 10px. Then, all font-sizes for particular page elements are set in em's, which has two benefits:

1) accessibility - since the font-size is set in relative units, the users can resize the text in IE6
2) predictability and ease for the developer - 1.1em = 11px, 1.2em = 12px, etc.

Please refer to the following page for more information:

http://clagnut.com/blog/348/


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Dimo
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answered on 23 Jul 2008, 05:00 PM
Thanks!  I'll post a snippet when complete.
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