Allowing users to change the font size

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Allowing users to change the font size

The simlest way to perform a one click operation?

ChrisBolton

7:12 am on Jul 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

The standard font size on my website is 11px. I have seen a number of websites recently with a number of different sized characters at the top of the screen which the user can click to change the font size.

I think this is a great idea as a lot of web users don't know how to change the text size in browsers.

What is the simplest way to do this if I use CSS for my page layout?

Regards.
Chris B.

le_gber

7:56 am on Jul 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

have a look on google for 'stylesheet switcher'.

these could be

client based = 'javascript stylesheet switcher'

server baser = 'php/asp/.net/jsp/cfm (circle the one you want) stylesheet switcher'

benihana

7:57 am on Jul 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

My preffered method is to set a cookie and reload the page.

Every page load checks for the cookie and if nessecary adds a reference to another stylesheet.

If you just want to change the font size you could add style="font-size:150%;" or similar to the <body>.

Loading a completely seperate stylehseet allows you to do much more than increase the font-size.

i use php for this.

Ben

[added] ^^ what le_gber said ^^ [/added]