[WEB4LIB] Re: "SMALL" HTML problem

[Eric Hellman]

I missed it- did you try a css style sheet?

DT {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Univers, sans-serif}


At 4:39 PM -0800 2/11/00, Stacy Pober wrote:
>James,
>
>Thanks for the info, but <big> and <small> are working just fine.  My
>original code for the page actually used <font size="+1"> for big and
><font size="-1"> for small, and THOSE worked too.  The problem isn't
>with the size - the sizes are working just fine.  I was looking for a
>way to cheap out of putting <font FACE="Arial"> codes into every <dt>.
>
>I did a global change to put <font FACE="Arial"> tags after each <dt>
>tag (closed with </font> right before the next <dt> tag.  That did fix
>the problem, but since this is a big file with over 2000 <dt> elements,
>I was hoping to get away with one font face invocation near the
>beginning of the document.  Alas, that doesn't work in Netscape (and I
>got the same problem whether I used <big> and <small> or <font
>size="whatever"> tags.)  I just don't know *why* it doesn't work, since
>Netscape is usually pretty casual about allowing pages to invoke the
>font face once in the beginning and have it apply throughout the
>document.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Stacy
>James Cayz wrote:
>  > On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Stacy Pober wrote:
>  > >I'm making an HTML document from an Excel spreadsheet of our library's
>  > >periodical holdings.  I formatted it into a dictionary list. The file
>  > >displays fine in Internet Explorer, but in Netscape 3.04 and Netscape
>  > >4.61, the font changes back to the default font after entries with ISSN
>  > >numbers.
>  > > [...]
>  > >
>  > >Here's a short test file that displays the problem.  If you have any
>  > >suggestions, please send them along!
>  > >
>  > > [...]
>  > >--
>  > >Stacy Pober, Information Alchemist
>  > >Manhattan College Libraries
>  > >spober at manhattan.edu
>  > >http://www.manhattan.edu/library/
>  >
>  > Stacy,
>  >
>  > Umm, <small> does not equal <font size=-2> or <font size={anything}>.
>  >
>  > As defined by W3 in the 4.01 (most current) "standard":
>  > 
>(http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/present/graphics.html# 
>edef-SMALL)
>  >  - - - -
>  > Rendering of font style elements depends on the user agent. The following
>  > is an informative description only.
>  >                 [...]
>  >               SMALL: Renders text in a "small" font.
>  >  - - - -
>  >
>  > Note that it says "Renders text in a 'small' font", and not "Renders text
>  > in a smaller font size".
>  >
>  > So, in essence, <small> is both a font face and size change, to whatever
>  > the browser thinks is best for it.  And </small> wouldn't know what to
>  > change it back to, other than the standard font.
>  >
>  > It looks like you want <font size=2> for your application.
>  >
>  > James
>  >
>  > 
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