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choddy
01-24-2006, 12:48 AM
I am looking for some info on text resizing.


I noticed that on http://www.simplebits.com/ (for example) that when you
resize the text, the site expands to accomidate it. I want to
achieve that same technique. Any help, tips, ideas, or links would be
greatly appreciated!

Let me see if I can explain myself a little better and maybe it will
help a little.

Ok, if you go to http://www.simplebits.com/ and you resize the text in
either Firefox or in IE by using the options up in the toolbar to make
the text smaller or larger, the entire site expands when you do it. On
my project, if you resize the text the same way, the text will get
larger but the structure of the site does not stretch to make it still
look perfect. Does that make sense? So, I am curious to know how this
works.
Choddy

Douglas
01-24-2006, 01:06 AM
Read the source of the page, and look through the source of the files, it seems they allowed the text to expand just until a certain level. Good luck ;)

choddy
01-24-2006, 03:24 AM
But U cant found anything that can help me. Is there a special code to do this?
Please help me.

choddy
01-24-2006, 03:25 AM
But I cant found anything that can help me. Is there a special code to do this?
Please help me.

djou
01-24-2006, 03:57 AM
There are various reasons:
- The person has barely ever used the height element
- This layout is done with divs, which expand when they have more content to, well, contain
- The navigation is done with a list
- The person used "em", which is a relative digit
- There is no absolute positioning anywhere

and surely more.