[WEB4LIB] Font Size Within Input Text Box

[cynthia_larson at aurora.org]

Martin-

Try using a style sheet with the following parameters set:

   TEXTAREA {font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
   FORM {font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
   INPUT TYPE, TEXT {font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica,
sans-serif;}

You need to specify the form fields as a specific style type rather than
just the table properties.

Cindy

Cynthia Larson
Coordinator, Library Systems
Aurora Health Care
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414-649-7371




Martin Courtois <courtois at gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>@webjunction.org on
10/11/2001 01:44:12 PM

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Can someone suggest a way to adjust font size within a form input text box
in Internet Explorer?  I also need to adjust the size of other form
elements, such as a select lists and "submit" buttons.

I'm able to do this in Netscape fairly easily.  On the page in question,
the <input type> and <select> tags appear within <td> tags.  So, in the
<style> tags, we declared a font-size for td.  Changing this font-size
value changes the size of all form elements.

But, this approach isn't working with IE.  Changing the font-size has no
effect on the size of form elements.  I'm using Netscape 4.75 and IE
5.5.

Here are the URLs for our working pages:

IE version: http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/tutorial/wrlcmain_msie.html
Netscape version: http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/tutorial/wrlcmain_nn.html

Why do I want to do this?  If you look at the URLs above, you can see
we're trying to take screen shots (.gif images) of database interfaces
(Lexis-Nexis, OPAC, etc.) and use layers to overlay form elements that
will enable the user to input text, select items, and click on submit
buttons.  We want to be able to re-size these elements to match the screen
shot, many of which we will need to reduce from their original size.  You
can see a good example of this approach in Chris Niemeyer's "OVID
Abstracts Tutorial"
(http://www.umsl.edu/services/libteach/ovid/mod1ov.htm) at University of
Missouri-St. Louis.  The whole idea is to make the .gif look like an
"live" session in the database, but it gives us more of an opportunity to
control users' experiences and to provide feedback.

Thanks for your help.  If I receive individual responses, I'll summarize
for the list.

Marty

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