[ale] Let's try this again. Stuck on HTML problem.

Byron A Jeff byron at cc.gatech.edu
Sun Sep 10 09:27:19 EDT 2000


> 
> Have you tried
> 
> Zero

Douglas,

That works. But it isn't a menu. I need something that pops up a list, gets
a selection, and leaves that selection after the list disappears, in that
size 100 font.

And BTW, with netscape none of the styles for fonts will work without a
"font-family: " directive listed. Netscape will just ignore it.

And to repeat, it seems a true type font renderer is required for Netscape
to do such scalable fonts. Since I still use Slackware I had to do it by hand:

- I downloaded and installed xfstt.
- I pulled Microsoft's TT fonts (http://www.microsoft.com/truetype). Note that
  the Win32 package isn't a self extracting ZIP file, only the Win16 3.1 
  package is. Also I never could get the Mac package to download at all.
- Drop in the fonts, sync with xfstt, and fire up the font manager.
- Now netscape sees the TT fonts and you can select as the default fonts.

It also makes all the rest of the pages that Netscape renders look so much
better. I plan to install TT on all my machines.

BAJ
> >
> > Strider Centaur wrote:
> > >
> > >     I don't think you can, SELECT is limited to the format defined in
> > > netscape/IE, and I believe that is very limited on formatting.
> > >
> > >     Try using Radio Button, Check Box or Anchor Tags combined with the
> FONT tag
> > > instead of select.  For instance:
> > >
> > > <A HREF="scriptname?value=0><FONT SIZE=+4>Zero</FONT></A>
> > > One</FONT>
> >
> > Actually you can wrap the whole select in a <font size=+N> tag.  I
> > suggested this in a private email to the original requester.
> 
> And that does work but it isn't nearly the size font I wanted. With style
> sheets I can generate fonts 10 times bigger than the biggest <FONT SIZE...>
> directive.
> 
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