Window Fonts

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Joined: Jan 1970

It is fustrating to realize that applying CSS to keep font size fixed is not enough. Some computers have their font size set to large in there control panel>display>setting>advanced . With large fonts, my page does look as nice at all. Is there anyway to get around this?? Thanks.

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Carmo

Jack Michaelson's picture

He has: 1,733 posts

Joined: Dec 1999

As far as I know... no.

You could think of turning text into a graphic. Then all text will appear the same on all systems no matter what presettings the users has. With a lot of text it's not really an option, because of the increasing downloadtime.

Hope it helps...

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Megan's picture

She has: 11,421 posts

Joined: Jun 1999

Oh, just give up already. There are too many things the users can, and will, mess with. It's hopeless, we'll never be able to get our pages to look the way we want for everyone. :whine:

But seriously though, I can't think of a way to get around the system settings if CSS isn't working. I wonder if there's a way to detect for this??? I'm assuming you're aware of the dangers of doing this right? Some people might have their fonts set large for a good reason etc. etc.?

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