Joseph W. Lowery
"Dreamweaver CS3 Bible"
Applying
sizes
When you work with tags, the six HTML heading types enable you to assign relative sizes to a line
or to an entire paragraph. In addition, HTML gives you a finer degree of control through the size attribute
of the font tag. In contrast to publishing or CSS environments, both traditional and desktop, font size is not
specified in HTML with points. Rather, the tag enables you to choose one of seven different explicit
sizes that the browser can render (absolute sizing), or you can select one relative to the page??™s basic font.
Figure 8-16 shows the default absolute and relative sizes, compared to a more page-designer??“friendly point
chart (accomplished with Dreamweaver??™s Cascading Style Sheets features).
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FIGURE 8-15
The font-size property keywords parallel the tag??™s size attribute values.
FIGURE 8-16
This chart shows the relationships between the various font sizes in an HTML browser as compared to real-world
point sizes.
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Which way should you go??”absolute or relative? Some designers think that relative sizing gives them more
options. As you can see by the chart in Figure 8-16, browsers are limited to displaying seven different sizes
no matter what??”unless you??™re using Cascading Style Sheets.
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