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6/23/2011 12:25:27 PM
di0077
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body font size

Hi Joe,

I wrote to you awhile back regarding a site that I am developing using artisteer-30verticalmenu2. You were very helpful! I am having a new issue.

I want the default font size for the entire site to be 16px or 1em as I need to have custom font sizes for all items in the site. I wanted 16px to be my start off point. I am having difficulty finding out where to specify this class as there is no size in the body class in the style.css. Below are the classes that I believe are affecting the entire site font size:

body
{
  padding: 0;
  margin:0;
  color: #474747;
  height:100%;
  background-color: #71b8d9;
  min-width: 1000px;
}

 

#art-main, table
{
font-family: Arial, "Helvetica",  sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;

}

 

Not sure this is enough information -

Thanks Dianne

6/24/2011 9:37:15 AM
Joe Davis
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Re: body font size

Hi Dianne,

You will need to add a font-size rule to the body selector in your CSS. Additionally, you should modify each other selector that has an explicit PX or PT for the font-size to use a relative sizing unit (% or EM).

Kyle Schaeffer has a very good article on font-size units and the PXtoEM.com website makes it easy to convert the units.

So, considering you want your base to be 16px, I would modify what you posted to look like this:

body
{
  padding: 0;
  margin:0;
  color: #474747;
  height:100%;
  background-color: #71b8d9;
  min-width: 1000px;
  font-size: 100%; /* 100% = 1em = 16px = 12pt */
}

 

#art-main, table
{
font-family: Arial, "Helvetica",  sans-serif;
font-size: 75%; /* 75% = 0.75em = 12px = 9pt */

}

HTH,
Joe D.

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